Mr Wright writes:
> >I heard today about Killed carbon steel, if any one
> >knows about the meaning of that name please let me
> >know.
> Killed steel is deoxidized with aluminum or silicon so the
oxygen doesn't
> react with the carbon when the molten steel solidifies.
Me not being very knowlegeable in molten metal technology (although I've done detail design related to converter slag punchers), I looked this up.
One of the undesireable effects after pouring is called, "piping".
Paul
PS The pipingdesign.org domain is now owned by Piping Design Central. It will take a few days for the DNS to propagate, and typing-in that domain name will redirect to PipingDesign.com. Received on Thu Nov 22 10:23:00 2001
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