Mini Steel Pegs
Steel pegs are built to be used in a large variety of pieces of equipment and for many uses. Mini steel pegs are just as strong as larger pegs, they are only smaller. Here’s a list of items you might find steel pegs used for, whether they are miniature sized or full sized:
- Tent poles
- Flag poles
- Peg boards
- Foot pegs
- Weight plate support
- Musical tuning
About the steel used to make mini steel pegs
Steel, used of course to make mini steel pegs, is an alloy, which is a metal mixture with the composition of at least two elements. The two primary elements in steel are iron and carbon. Carbon is the element that is used to create the hardness of steel. 90% of steel production is actually carbon steel. Varying levels of these two elements determines how strong and hard the steel is. One type of steel with more than 2.1% carbon is actually cast iron. Cast iron is commonly used in engineering, for a wide range of items, like machines, car parts, and pipes, and even cylinder heads and blocks.
Making the mini steel pegs
Since the mid-19th century, the development of steel has become a mass produced material that is not very expensive to create. Yet it is one of the most widely used materials today, with over 1.3 billion tons produced annually. In order to form the steel to the shape of the mini steel pegs, a process called annealing is done to the steel. This softens the steel enough to mold it into whatever shape is desired. Then the process of quenching is done to the steel. The quenching is basically cooling the steel after it has been shaped. Then the steel gets tempered, which is sort of like making the steel even harder. It helps reduce fracturing of the steel and reduces internal defects of the material. With this process, the steel can be shaped to whatever peg size needed.
Mini steel pegs versus a larger steel peg
There’s not much difference between the mini, regular, or large sized steel peg. Obviously, the size would be the difference, but not so much difference in the strength. Sure, if the mini peg is smaller, it will have less steel in its makeup, but the strength of that steel would be no different than if it was in a larger peg. The plus to using a mini peg is that it can be used in more places. The larger peg would only be able to be used in items that had room for a large peg.
It’s no wonder, that steel would be used to create the mini steel pegs that you may find in a variety of products. With such durability, the product using these pegs would be much stronger and hopefully inexpensive. The size of mini pegs, along with their versatility and strength, give them the innate ability to be used in so many different products – they prove to be quite the useful item.