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

[Mike Spencer]

> For our use, I wonder what the real difference is between
> "normalized" and "as forged"?  As long as the last heats you don't
> beat stresses into it.

I dunno, Dan.  Sam Allen, the prof at MIT who is also a blacksmith and
has a forge shop in the basement of the main building there, wrote a
first-year textbook for materials science.  I keep meaning to order it
but it keeps getting put off.  I'm not completely clear on the
difference, at the crystal or grain level between annealing and
normalizing.  (Hence the scare quotes around those words in my post.)

- Mike

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