[TheForge] spring temper for brass question

Sun Mar 14 07:23:01 2004

To All,
Tempering glass?  Why not tempering chocolate?

Hochewa

In a message dated 3/12/2004 8:55:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Agreed Bill:
> 
> The serious side of this thread has indeed been about hardening a brass
> spring not tempering one.
> 
> Tempering is a controlled softening of a material and is indeed most common,
> metallurgically, applied to steels. There are other materials needing
> tempering in the correct sense of the term, glass for one.
> 
> Of course if someone asks THIS list about tempering glass they deserve what
> they get. <grin>
> 
> Frosty
> 

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