Steel Making
Non-shrinking Oil-hardening Steels
Certain steels have a very low rate of expansion and contract...
Gas Consumption For Carburizing
Although the advantages offered by the gas-fired furnace for ...
Hardness Testing
The word hardness is used to express various properties of me...
Temperatures To Use
As soon as the temperature of the steel reaches
100 deg.C. (...
Separating The Work From The Compound
During the pulling of the heat, the pots are dumped upon a ca...
Properties Of Alloy Steels
The following table shows the percentages of carbon, manganes...
Fatigue Tests
It has been known for fifty years that a beam or rod would fa...
Case-hardening Treatments For Various Steels
Plain water, salt water and linseed oil are the three most co...
Heating Of Manganese Steel
Another form of heat-treating furnace
is that which is used ...
Complete Calibration Of Pyrometers
For the complete calibration
of a thermo-couple of unknown e...
Hardening Carbon Steel For Tools
For years the toolmaker had full sway in regard to make of st...
Carburizing By Gas
The process of carburizing by gas, briefly mentioned on page ...
Refining The Grain
This is remedied by reheating the piece to a temperature slig...
Short Method Of Treatment
In the new method, the packed pots are
run into the case-har...
Highly Stressed Parts
The highly stressed parts on the Liberty engine consisted of ...
Corrosion
This steel like any other steel when distorted by cold
worki...
The Quenching Tank
The quenching tank is an important feature of apparatus in
c...
Annealing Of Rifle Components At Springfield Armory
In general, all forgings of the components of the arms manufa...
Forging High-speed Steel
Heat very slowly and carefully to from 1,800
to 2,000 deg.F....
Cyanide Bath For Tool Steels
All high-carbon tool steels are
heated in a cyanide bath. Wi...