Any of you lot got experience/knowledge of working with this stuff?
It’s a pretty simple job of making a new rear brake master cylinder push rod so: 6mm dia. X about 75mm long, one end ground/filed to a dome and the other threaded for about 20 mm. A doddle in mild steel, but S/S?
I’ve got a choice of 303, 304 or 316 grade rod.
Can anybody tell me which is the easier one to hand work?
You need to select the grade not on how easy it is to work, but on how it will perform in the environment selected, i.e. which will provide the best resistance to pressure and resistance to corrosion.