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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
