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.


What happens to the aligned and refined grain structure when you normalize it and then heat treat it?