MULTIMET alloy is recommended for use in applications involving high stress at temperatures up to 1500 deg. F., and moderate stresses up to 2000 deg. F. It has excellent oxidation resistance, good ductility, and is readily fabricated. Its high-temperature properties are inherent and are not dependent upon age hardening. Production and use of the alloy dates back to the late 1940's.

The alloy has been used in a number of aircraft applications including tailpipes and tail cones, afterburner parts, exhaust manifolds, combustion chambers, turbine blades, buckets, and nozzles. It also gives excellent service for high-temperature bolts, and has proven to be an economical material of construction for use in heat-treating equipment where strength at high temperatures is essential.

MULTIMET alloy has good resistance to corrosion in certain media under both oxidizing and reducing conditions. When solution heat-treated, MULTIMET alloy has about the same resistance to nitric acid as does stainless steel. It has better resistance than stainless steel to weak solutions of hydrochloric acid. It withstands all concentrations of sulfuric acid at room temperature.

MULTIMET alloy can be machined, forged and cold-formed by conventional methods. The alloy can be welded by various arc and resistance-welding processes.

MULTIMET alloy is available as sheet, strip, plate, wire, coated electrodes, billet stock and sand and investment castings. It is also available in the form of remelt stock to a certified chemistry.

Most wrought forms of MULTIMET alloy are shipped in the solution heat-treated condition to assure optimum properties. Sheet is given a solution heat-treatment of 2150 deg. F., for a time dependent upon section thickness, followed by a rapid air cool or water quench. Bar stock and plate (1/4 in. and heavier) and are usually solution heat-treated at 2150 deg. F. followed by a water quench.