On 08/02/2016 01:40 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > FWIW, There are copper alloys that can be heat treated. Beryllium copper > is one example.
That is kind of atypical though for most non-ferrous metals and alloys. I always treated heat treating and annealing as two separate processes, the former typically hardening the metal, and the latter making it softer. That's how I learned it way back when, but perhaps the definition should be expanded. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
