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Brass Round
Brass metal is used in many forms by many craftsmen, trades, businesses and hobbyists, and Rapid Metals makes it easy to buy brass online. This includes brass round bar, also known as brass rods. These versatile metal products can be used in the creation of a whole host of components, assemblies and parts.
We price all our brass round bar sections individually for full price transparency and easy ordering. To order from us, find the size you need from the list above, enter the quantity you need and add the items to your basket.
Brass rods can serve as the raw material for a huge number of products. Brass round bar can be cut and machined to become smaller precision components such as bushings, gears, bearings and small dowels or shafts.
Suitable brass round bar can form the basis of valves, taps, pipe fittings, sealing glands and other parts for plumbing, hydraulic systems and other fluid systems.
Brass round bar is widely used for making electrical connectors, terminals and similar parts for electrical and electronics circuits, especially when cut with threads.
Plain round brass can also be used for making and cutting bespoke fixings such as bolts, screws, nuts and other fasteners.
The gold-like appearance and durability of brass metal also make it a common choice for interior design and décor, with brass round being used – either in plain form or machined to a finished shape – in railings, door handles, light fixtures and decorative trim.
Brass is famously used for – and gives its name to – an entire family of musical instruments. Brass rounds will be used in the production of these instruments, especially for smaller parts such as slides, valves and levers.
As an alloy of copper and zinc, brass has many of the same properties of copper – it’s corrosion-resistant, highly machinable and very ductile.
Brass is significantly harder than equivalent copper, but has a lower melting point (typically around 940-980 deg. C).
Brass metal forms a patina when exposed to atmospheric moisture, so it is corrosion-resistant in all but the harshest environments. Specialist marine brass is required to withstand saltwater corrosion, however.
Brass rounds are renowned for excellent machineability, offering smooth, easy and accurate cutting, whether by a manual tap or die or complex CNC processes.
Brass offers excellent thermal conductivity and good electrical conductivity.
Brass has inherent anti-microbial properties.
For formability, brass is especially responsive and suitable for hot working, and so is ideal for forming complex shapes by hot extrusion and other heat-applying methods. But the inherent hardness of brass, especially when compared to copper, makes it generally poor for cold working.
The same applies for ductility – brass round bar can be drawn when hot-worked, but ductility when cold is limited.
Because heating makes brass softer, brass rounds cannot be heat-hardened, but can be hardened by cold-working. However, when cold-worked brass rapidly transforms from hard to brittle, care must be taken.
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