Summary for silicon content in crca Discussion
Silicon content in CRCA is the focus of this thread, but the only response is a caution from the answerer that the question is too abstract to diagnose well. Neel Mehta says he is reverse engineering a product made from CRCA and found traces of silicon around 0.07-0.08, while other properties match CRCA specifications, and he asks what role silicon plays because his other CRCA products do not show it. The reply advises that faster progress would come from identifying the actual object and its function, since the part’s use may explain why silicon is present. The answerer warns that broad speculation about all possible reasons for silicon, or whether it is accidental, is unlikely to help much. No definitive technical explanation is given in the thread.
Q. I am reverse engineering a product and I know that the material is CRCA but I have found traces of Si in it around 0.07-0.08 and other all properties matches CRCA material specifications.
Can anyone help me what role does Silicon play in it as we have not found traces of Si in our other CRCA products.
Neel Mehta
– Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
July 2015
? Hi Neel. I suspect you’ll make faster progress is you can tell us what this object is, rather than just saying you found silicon in CRCA. Knowing the function of the part may help explain the function of the silicon, whereas blue sky ideas of all possible reasons for & functions of silicon, or its accidental presence, may not help you much … and my experience here is that most of the readers just skip the abstract questions anyway. But good luck.
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Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
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