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quenching

  1. N555

    The thing that makes all the things

    Here is a rail road track anvil I milled flat and it milled flat a little too easy. The Rockwell hardness was about a 52 or 53, everytime I touched it with a hammer it dented, that's why I milled it because the surface was rough. This winter I heated it up, quenched and tempered it. Now the Rc...
  2. Olon

    Why Quench?

    Hello, I was reading through some reloading threads here on THR. One thing that came up a few times that has me scratching my head is why some folks would quench their cases before reloading them. I get that, by annealing, you are undoing the effects of what is essentially cold working the...
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