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Excerpt from The Management of Steel, Including Forging, Hardening, Tempering, Annealing, Shrinking, and Expansion: Also the Case-Hardening of Iron Steel being one of the most valuable metals and requiring great care in the forging, hardening, tem pering, annealing, and management of it in general, I think, after having had nearly twenty years' good practice, experience, and study combined, I am now able to. Give a little information to those who have not had so much to do with it as I have. All that I here state is from my own practical experience; and by following the plans I shall here give, the artist will meet with every success. There are many people who, for the want of a little useful knowledge on steel, refrain from making many a good tool, because they say it is sure to crack in hardening; but if the steel is good, and has not been spoilt in forging the article, then, by following my plans they never need be afraid that it will be a waster. There are tons of the very best steel condemned as bad steel - when at the same time it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.