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Category: "MOSTLY METALLURGY; Heat Treatment"
61672. Refine Stainless Steel from 316 to 316L - May 28
58484. Can't obtain any Carpenter BG42 -- what steel is similar? - May 22
54607. Inconel 625 Tubes Have Insufficient Chromium on Surface after Sizing - May 22
25525. Tin/nickel interdiffusion Q&A - April 23
12545. Annealing 316 Stainless Steel Tubing - March 1
48272. How to demagnetise stainless steel? - October 18
61408. 316L Stainless Steel is too springy open Q. - October 16
38657. Sometimes in hot rolling the Mill Scale is excessive open Q. - September 12
26714. 
Yellow stains on heat treated stainless steel
open Q. - September 10
• "Double tempering" of 420 stainless steel? open Q. - June 8
• Problems in Annealing of Copper Wire open Q. - January 26
• Is 6063 aluminum a precipitation hardening alloy? open Q. - January 11
• 316L Stainless is too spring-y - January 3
• How to decarbonize the surface of high carbon steel - December 22
• Does forging create mill scale? open Q. - September 8
• Hardening EN8 / EN9 parts. Q&A's, Problems & Solutions open Q. - August 10