On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:32:34 -0800, "Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote:
"Ted Edwards" wrote in message
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I make a lot of tools from old car/truck springs both leaf and coil.
Easy to anneal, machine, grind, forge, harden and temper.

Ted

Great idea, but far from modern high quality tool steel. The tool steels of
today are not necessarily just carbon steel and don't necessarily rely on
the carbon cycle for hardness. There are tool steels that have no iron in
their makeup.

No iron?

Gary