[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

[George Adkins]

On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:51 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:31:10AM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 March 2002 08:15 am, you wrote:
> > > I think you have that backwards.  Steel is iron plus carbon, not minus
> > > carbon :-)
> >
> > no, actually Iron + lots of carbon = brittle, like Cast Iron (which has
> > lots of carbon)  the trick is to get a low-carbon iron, and to get 'just
> > enough' carbon in it to make it behave the way you want...
>
> You are leaving out consideration of the various crystalline forms the
> metal can take, regardless of carbon content, such as martensite,
> austenite, etc.  at different temperatures and depending on how
> rapidly the metal is cooled from forging temperature.
>
Yes, Yes, I'm trying to keep it simple.

George