The ultra-high strength bolts' strength is beyond regular highest properties class 12.9 because of Sun Through's experience in materials and heat treatment. The durable bolt is stiff without being brittle. The bolt can be bent by more than 60 degrees. It provides great safety under huge loads. If we convert the strength to inch standard, it will be higher than Grade 9 in SAE J429.

Introduction:

Being too brittle is a common failure of high strength fasteners. The key is in the heat treatment process. Usually, people queching steel to obtain a microstructure called Martensite, which has extreme high hardness but low ductility. This kind of structure is not good when impact resistance is a more preferable property. By tempering Martensite, we can tune down the hardness in exchange of higher toughness. Tempered Martensite is obtained in most heat treatment cases, including most of class 12.9 fasteners. 

However, tempered Martensite is not enough for us. We found another form of ferrous sturcutre which has better strength and good ductility than Martensite. It is an ideal structure to sustain heavy duty and severe vibration and has low risk of hydrogen embrittlement or fatigue failure.

The challenging part is, it needs more precise control in temperature and heating/cooling time, to keep the material in certain temperature for a specific duration of time, and it takes much longer operation time to modify tempered Martensite.

Since Sun Through is highly skillful in heat treatment and professional in fastener manufacturing, class 14.9 bolts are no longer impossible.

If you are suffering from failure of class 12.9 fasteners, please contact us.  

*Please refer to ISO-4762 for dimensions of hex socket bolts.

*Please refer to ISO-898 (metric standard), or SAE J429 (inch standard) for details of bolting properties class or grade.