Metallurgy

Everyone who has worked on guns for a long time knows the awful truth. Sooner or later, a customer is going to bring in an unusual firearm for which spare parts, especially springs, are nonexistent. This book provides information on spring making so you can get the job done.

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Electroplating is a method of covering objects with a thin layer of metal. Discovered by Michael Faraday in the 1830's it has enjoyed enthusiastic development and application in many areas of industry, and touches our everyday lives in many ways. This manual and our kits, have been designed to help the smaller operation obtain a professional finish, with fairly basic plating techniques.

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This compilation of resources covers a wide range of topics including classification of steel, effects of alloying elements, effects of residual elements, properties of carbon steel, theory of heat treatment, hardening steel, heat treating, definition of most-used terms, and more miscellaneous 'good-to-know' stuff on blacksmithing.

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This FAQ aims to teach the basics about metals and why things happen like they do, like heat-treating. If you learn this FAQ, you can figure out how to apply it to a situation.

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This book covers topics surrounding heat treatment of steal including pyrometers, hardening, tempering, annealing, casehardening, and application and heat treatment of S. A. E. carbon and alloy steels.

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Stainless steels are only one segment of the steel spectrum, but they serve a multitude of applications from brightly polished consumer products to machinery and equipment for tough industrial environments. This book provides more details about stainless steel machining.

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The purpose of this subcourse is to introduce the student to the properties of metals, their characteristics, uses and identification codes.

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The objectives of this article are to give the reader a greater appreciation for carbon steel and what it can do, to give a rudimentary explanation for how heat treatment works and to give some examples.

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The anodizing process develops a spongy translucent oxide over the aluminum. This oxide layer is permeable initially and will absorb liquid pigments into its structure. Immersion in boiling liquid will seal the outer surface of the oxide, trapping any pigment within its structure permanently.

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This book features boring tough automobile spring leaf with ordinary carbon drill after it has been case-hardened in a home workshop.

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