Originally Posted by cra1948
Originally Posted by sidepass
Not that difficult to understand. All starts as soup. Some is cast as bar stock some is cast as something specific. All the same.


Not really true. Yes, it all comes from the furnace as molten steel, but bar stock is not "cast as bar stock..." Bar stock is rolled which results in aligning and refining the grain structure.


Glad you're bringing this up,...it's more catch phrase vagueness, with no basis in reality.
Closest thing I can buy as "cast bar stock" is some specialty CONTINUOUS POUR FE ( PURE IRON) that's specific to making quality magnets, and such.
Outside of that, there is no such thing,..."bar stock" by industry definition is a ROLLED material.
Simplistic generalizations may not be be "difficult to understand".
....that doesn't make em' RIGHT, either.

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