On 08/02/2016 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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

Perhaps I'm not understanding your earlier questions then about heat 
treating?


Mark


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