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Default Hardening and tempering

newshound wrote:
On 13/12/2019 15:39, FMurtz wrote:
Any steel boffins around?
Fe/CS
MnĀ* 2.03 0.86
FeĀ* 95.4 2.19
Presumably heat cherry red and quench ,then in the old days used to
bring to selected colour then quench to temper but nowadays they seem
to stick in oven for selected time, how about 300 degrees for an hour
then let cool slowly?


Don't quite understand your table, can you explain it better?

Directly from metal analysis instrument.


The key parameter is likely to be the carbon level, and what you are
trying to do with the final product.