On Tuesday 02 August 2016 10:46:03 Mark wrote: > > Silly Q: Going online to the metals pedlars, C360 seems to be what > > 90% of the bar stock offered is. But regardless of the alloy, its > > all stated as not being heat treatable. Since extruded brass is > > called half-hard, or HO2, it can be played with in the oven (if its > > hot enough), but always to soften. > > > > Are they simply trying to head off the idiot that thinks ferrous and > > wonders why his stock is dead soft after he heat treated it like > > steel? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Gene, > > You can't "heat treat" brass/bronze/copper etc (non-ferrous) to > harden. You can only anneal those metals. They do, however, work > harden, which annealing takes away. > > Mark
I know that, Mark. For many decades. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
