Steel Making
Refining The Grain
This is remedied by reheating the piece to a temperature slig...
Hardening High-speed Steel
In forging use coke for fuel in the forge. Heat steel slowly ...
High-carbon Machinery Steel
The carbon content of this steel is above 30 points and is ha...
Hardness Testing
The word hardness is used to express various properties of me...
Preventing Cracks In Hardening
The blacksmith in the small shop, where equipment is usually ...
Knowing What Takes Place
How are we to know if we have given a
piece of steel the ver...
Properties Of Alloy Steels
The following table shows the percentages of carbon, manganes...
Surface Carburizing
Carburizing, commonly called case-hardening, is the art of pr...
The Effect
The heating at 1,600 deg.F. gives the first heat treatment
w...
Effects Of Proper Annealing
Proper annealing of low-carbon steels
causes a complete solu...
William Kelly's Air-boiling Process
An account of Bessemer's address to the British Association w...
Vanadium
Vanadium has a very marked effect upon alloy steels rich in c...
Making Steel Balls
Steel balls are made from rods or coils according to size, st...
Cutting-off Steel From Bar
To cut a piece from an annealed bar, cut off with a hack saw,...
High Speed Steel
For centuries the secret art of making tool steel was handed ...
Robert Mushet
Robert (Forester) Mushet (1811-1891), born in the Forest of D...
Ebbw Vale And The Bessemer Process
After his British Association address in August 1856, Besseme...
Double Annealing
Water annealing consists in heating the piece, allowing it to...
Annealing Of Rifle Components At Springfield Armory
In general, all forgings of the components of the arms manufa...
Short Method Of Treatment
In the new method, the packed pots are
run into the case-har...