[TheForge] S-5 Steel

Wed Jul 10 23:26:05 2002

"S-5 is primarily an oil-hardening grade; however it hardens satisfactorily by
water quenching when the design is not too intricate."

Ref: http://www.lindquiststeels.com/html/literat/tecbul/tecbul14.pdf

Bob

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Dave Brown wrote:

> Oops, I think you made a little goof.  The S7 is air hardening (see
> abouve), S5 is Oil or Water hardening (see previous post).

	Apparently, but as I recall S5 doesn't water harden well.
	Oil I can believe.  That, or I'm coimpletely senile, which
	is not entirely out of the realm of possibility.