Aluminum Dowel Pins Machining Custom Metal Stud Axle Locating Pin

The aluminum dowel pins inserted into receiving holes, the pins hold together parts of an assembly with friction. They may also be used as location pins. These pins are common in the automotive and aerospace industries as well as in furniture making. Ever Hardware provides custom-made aluminum dowel pins and customizable packaging.

Aluminum is a relatively soft, durable, lightweight, ductile, and malleable metal with appearance ranging from silvery to dull gray, depending on the surface roughness. It is nonmagnetic and does not easily ignite. A fresh film of aluminum serves as a good reflector (approximately 92%) of visible light and an excellent reflector (as much as 98%) of medium and far-infrared radiation. The yield strength of pure aluminum is 7–11 Mpa, while aluminum alloys have yield strengths ranging from 200 Mpa to 600 Mpa. Aluminium has about one-third the density and stiffness of steel. It is easily machined, cast, drawn, and extruded.
Aluminum atoms are arranged in a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. Aluminium has a stacking fault energy of approximately 200 mJ/m2.
Aluminum is a good thermal and electrical conductor, having 59% the conductivity of copper, both thermal and electrical while having only 30% of copper’s density. Aluminium is capable of superconductivity, with a superconducting critical temperature of 1.2 kelvin and a critical magnetic field of about 100 gausses (10 millie teslas).
Corrosion resistance can be excellent because a thin surface layer of aluminium oxide forms when the bare metal is exposed to air, effectively preventing further oxidation, in a process termed passivation. The strongest aluminium alloys are less corrosion resistant due to galvanic reactions with alloyed copper. This corrosion resistance is greatly reduced by aqueous salts, particularly in the presence of dissimilar metals.

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