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Old 01-31-2019, 12:54 PM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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You are correct. Tempering will not effect the grain size. It will only adjust the hardness of the steel by allowing some of the carbon to escape the iron matrix. It will also create some carbides.

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