Q: What are the advantages of Monel metal?
A: Monel bolts are a nickel alloy that offers many advantages.
- Monel bolts are extremely saltwater corrosion resistant. Monel can provide years of seawater service without corroding.
- Monel offers high strength, with K500 offering double the strength of Monel grade 400.
- Monel is usable over a wide temperature range. It can retain its excellent high strength and toughness to about 1000 °F.
- Monel is ideal for cryogenic use, maintaining ductility, strength and toughness several hundred degrees below zero.
- Monel is one of few materials that can withstand the corrosive power of hydrofluoric acid, in most concentrations and temperatures up to the boiling point. It is one of few materials usable in HF, which will ever corrode pure tantalum.