Reasons Why Ferrous Metals Need Normalizing Heat Treatment
29 January 2020Ferrous metals, those that are rich in iron (Fe), often require normalizing. Why should this be the case? Is the grain size really that inconsistent and material-coarse after an iron workpiece has been heat-treated? Actually, yes, the grain size will alter in an iron workpiece if it’s continually processed. This […]
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Controlling Furnace Atmosphere in Heat Treatment
14 January 2020A second heat treatment effector exists in an industrial furnace, one that’s sometimes forgotten by the average layperson. Besides the heat source, the gas-fuelled or electrically energized thermal energy flowing evenly around a subject workpiece, there’s the atmosphere inside that sealed chamber to consider. Sometimes, the atmosphere is totally taken […]
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