[TheForge] You can always tell a Yankee...

[K Donahoe]

I was talking with Ralph Sproul about his notion that steel heated up and
air cooled is "half hard",  trying to explain that, I believe, the
conventional term is "Normalized".  Whereupon I realized it might be easier
to change the textbooks to accept "half-hard" before he'd accept
"normalized", ha!  The steel may be half hard, but that is one
whole-hard-head <VBG>

At any rate, it got me to wondering if air hardening steel has a normalized
state? More to the point, Normalized for us at home-hobyists?  But then, I
suppose it wouldn't likely have an annealed state, either? except as it
comes from the supplier.

Kevin Donahoe
Flying Pig Forge
Morrow, OH 45152
flyinpig at go-concepts.com