Subject: Re: Tool Steel

From: [email-masked] (Clay Spencer)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:59:28 -0400

At 6:44 PM 7/12/96, [email-masked] wrote:
> Used to be you could heat treat a chisel by
>heating to a "cherry red" and quenching.

If all the metal we try to quench was only medium or high carbon steel (no
alloys), we could probably do the simple process.
Much of the stuff we use today is not plain carbon steel
Clay