[TheForge] Normalize vs Annealing prior to hardening

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

If you get the heating temperature just right, and soak it a while,
and you are using a tool steel...The normalizing should further relieve stresses,
but more importantly, improve the grain structure.
But annealing should have pretty much covered that function,
except for very high alloy/carbon content steels.
Not my area of expertise though.


On Jun 3, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Kim George wrote:

I normalize 3 times then quench. Heat past critical check for warps
straighten then reheat. I let it cool in still air on two pieces round
stock.By doing it 3 times you relieve the stress in stages.

-- 
Kim George

"Why for you try to bury me in cold,cold ground?"
    Taz
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