Re: Why I became a "Cast Iron" hater and the problems I have seen
- From: fr1939 <cf1957@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:38:45 -0700
On Sep 29, 8:53 am, brucedpa...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:34:07 +0000 (UTC), RussSnip
<havana99trade...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
#browninghighpow...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
## Forgings can be heat treated and made very hard on the outside andYou must remember that his manufacturing experience may have been
## left soft on the inside so that they will take a tremendous amount of
## shock and pounding that will not result in their shattering like
## castings often do.
This is totally untrue. The most common method of making something
"very hard on the outside and left soft on the inside" is by case
hardening which can be done to any iron alloy regardless of how it is
formed.
before carbon was discovered.
On the another hand I would love to see the forging press that punched
out the frame for an old LeBlond gear head lathe, say something with a
20 foot bed.
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