[TheForge] Re: Do you know if the normalizing differ substantially from the annealing

[Mike Spencer]

Paul Novorolsky wrote:

> I'll have to see if I can find that book, or one similar 
> for a reasonable price.

Look for a better one about heat treating. My Mechanical Engineer's
Handbook has a little bit about very nearly everything which means it
doesn't have very much about any particular thing.

> Since it doesn't specify a soak time under Normalizing, can I assume
> more than a thorough heating through,that it isn't important here?

That's a perfectly good speculation. :-)  I don't know much more that
what I copied from the book.  I did some reading decades ago but have
forgotten what (if anything) I learned then.  Heating through and
through seems an obvious requirement to get the desired effect through
and through.

- Mike

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