The invention discloses a manufacture technique of tap shells for polar
drill rigs. The manufacture technique incudes: (1) for
forging, performing
forging via upsetting,
punching,
broaching and forming to guarantee a
forging fiber flow line under the conditions that
heating temperature is 1270-1310 DEG C, initial forging temperature is 1100-1250 DEG C and terminal temperature is not lower than 850 DEG C, performing annealing after forging under the condition that the
heating temperature is 880+ / -20 DEG C, and performing furnace cooling to enable tapping temperature not higher than 300 DEG C; (2) for heat treatment, normalizing at temperature of 880-900 DEG C prior to
air cooling,
quenching at temperature of 840-860 DEG C prior to
oil cooling or cooling with a PAG
quenching medium,
tempering at temperature of 580+ / -40 DEG C prior to
air cooling, performing subcritical
quenching at temperature of 790+ / -10 DEG C prior to
oil cooling or cooling with the PAG quenching medium, and
tempering at temperature of 520-600 DEG C prior to
air cooling; (3) for non-destructive inspection, finishing prior to
machining a product according to size, and performing ultrasonic inspection and
magnetic particle inspection, wherein the qualified level conforms to API Specification 8C standards. Compared with the prior art, the manufacture technique has the advantages that the tap shells manufactured with the technique have high strength to guarantee enough safety factor, adapt to polar regions (at the temperature of minus 60 DEG C) and meet the requirement on enough low temperature
impact toughness so as to
resist to the low-temperature environment of the polar regions.