An interesting editorial article by Dan Herring, president of THE HERRING GROUP Inc. as announced in today’s Industrial Heating’s newsletter : A Quench-and-Temper Technique for Evaluating Carburized Case Depths Did you know there is a simple and highly accurate shop-floor technique to measure case depth that does not involve microhardness testing or carbon-bar analysis? Dan [...]
Read moreNew Technology Delivers Quality Improvements for Gas-Carburizing Processes
“In the two major global markets (aerospace and automotive) served by the heat-treatment industry, quality has always been a key driving force. To many heat treaters, the concept of quality is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s a cost to be borne to compete in these markets and, on the other, a competitive [...]
Read more“Why is it important to Control Carbon Potential When Carburizing?”
Earlier this week David Pye wrote an article on Carbon Control for the MTI Weekly Hot ENews! - David is MTI’s official Metallurgical Consultant and his company is Metallurgical Consultants, Inc. The article describes the early use of carburizing and how is all came about (4000 years ago!) and also describes how Carbon content is controlled today with the most [...]
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September 24, 2009
