Originally Posted by SBTCO
As long as the material being poured is hot enough to go into solution before cooling and is properly heat treated and tempered for the specs. required it will work fine. Forging is used to shape steel but in practical terms does not induce magical properties into the steel above and beyond other methods of shaping steel, contrary to popular opinion.


Sorry, ....WRONG.

Etched Photo-micrographs will show superior grain structures in properly designed forgings AND castings that will not be present in the identical piece machined from rolled or cast billet.

GTC

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