[TheForge] SS alloy advice?

[Jerry Frost]

I was going to suggest 440 A or B as potential spring 
stock but I have no expertise with SS springs.

Yeah, Father had to be careful how parts got delivered 
if hardness was specified but that was for spun sheet 
metal not springs.

I have hardened non-ferrous on a speaker but again 
don't know how it'd work on wire let alone SS.

Frosty
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it ain't real.
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at yahoo.com>

> Hmmm,
>
> I take it that 316 can't be hardened by heating and
> quenching, as one does for carbon steel?
>
> I have some 316 that is dimensionally suitable, but I
> don't think it was cold worked.  I wonder whether I
> could work harden this somehow.
>
> Frosty - Didn't you tell us a story one time about
> metals hardening during transport ... or in front of
> loudspeakers?
>
> Bruce
>