05-30-2007, 09:59 PM
And also, what about where I have seen people work iron/steel when it is hot.? :?
Iron/steel is ferrous the only way to work it is hot, if you do cold it will break, split and fracture.
Now this has me confused. So why do people say to anneal iron/steel, you heat it, then let it cool, before working it? That is the answer a lot of people have given, or at least that was the way I interpreted them.
I would go with working it hot myself, as that was what I had always understood, but why do people keeping giving the other answer?
Thanks for the answers though, it has made things clearer.
As to the bronze, I would assume that no matter how often you heat it, and soften it, the working will harden it again? Does this vary according to the composition of the bronze?
Iron/steel is ferrous the only way to work it is hot, if you do cold it will break, split and fracture.
Now this has me confused. So why do people say to anneal iron/steel, you heat it, then let it cool, before working it? That is the answer a lot of people have given, or at least that was the way I interpreted them.
I would go with working it hot myself, as that was what I had always understood, but why do people keeping giving the other answer?
Thanks for the answers though, it has made things clearer.
As to the bronze, I would assume that no matter how often you heat it, and soften it, the working will harden it again? Does this vary according to the composition of the bronze?
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Batavian Coh I
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