The application discloses a production method for controlling the thickness of
iron oxide scale of free-
cutting steel, and the process steps are as follows: hot
metal pretreatment, converter
steelmaking, CAS treatment, LF furnace external refining,
continuous casting,
heating furnace heating, rolling, controlled cooling, coil collecting and finished
product inspection. The composition and thickness of the surface
iron oxide scale of the free-cuting steel
wire rod are controlled by controlling the
wire drawing temperature and the post-rolling
cooling speed, the
wire drawing temperature is ensured to be below 860 DEG C by adjusting the water amount of the water tank after the finishing mill, the Fe2O3 red
rust is generated on the surface of the
wire rod, and the proportion of Fe3O4 in the
iron oxide scale on the surface of the
wire rod is prevented from being increased due to the excessively high
wire drawing temperature. The wire drawing temperature and the post-rolling
cooling speed are controlled in the application, the red
rust-like iron
oxide scale is formed on the surface of the free-
cutting steel wire rod, the thickness of the iron
oxide scale on the surface of the free-
cutting steel wire rod is controlled to be below 12 microns, the inclusions and the banded structure are uniformly distributed, and the application is suitable for producing the free-cutting steel with the specifications of 6.5-17 mm and S=0.28%-0.40%.