I'm sure this question has been asked many times but i need to make sure you understand why i'm asking because i'm clueless on this. I'm an MRO sales rep and i work in a machine shop. I have a customer who sent a drawing of some long and short muffle tubes that they get from Japan on a blanket order every year. I gave the drawing to one of the engineers here and he said that it calls for 310SS which he can only get overseas and the minimum order is 1 ton...the order itself for a year is only about 800lbs worth. I dont know enough about the difference between 304SS and 310SS to say whether or not 304SS would be a good substitution. I dont know what theyre using the muffle tubes for so i cant judge it by that. The purchasing department sends the quotes out and they dont know any other information to help me on this. We can get the tubes(they're in metric)in 304SS from a vendor and machine the rest per the drawing ourselves. But i was just wondering if there are any specific differences between the materials that i need to address. I can email the engineering department questions about the drawing but it will take 2 weeks to get a response if i dont have simple yes or no answerable questions for them. Sorry i know this is confusing and i'm rambling but this is a huge order and i'd really like to learn a bit more about 310SS anyway since i'd never come across it before.
Help With Difference in 304SS and 310SS?
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