A family's day with
Tungsten
When he starts the motor, he remembers what a
business partner has mentioned, that so called cemented carbide tools for
machining the engine block are very good business and use a strange element
called Tungsten as their main constituent. Perhaps he will look for stocks of
such a tool company to invest his saving.
Cemented carbide tools are used for the machining the engine block of a
car
they use the high hardness of the tungsten carbide (WC) and constitute
today more than 60% of the worldwide tungsten demand; by courtesy of Walter AG,
Germany.
engine block machining tools
The motor is a diesel engine, but one could barely feel that. He is
really happy about his new 10cylinder engine-almost no vibrations. What he is
not aware of is that almost 10kg
of Tungsten heavy metal parts, located around the crankshaft are responsible
for the perfect vibration damping.
Vibration damping measures in cars
Compact and space-saving design
becomes possible by using high-density tungsten heavy metal as crankshaft
balance weights; by courtesy of Plansee. Austria
and Volkswagen, Germany.
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