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Old 10-29-2017, 02:42 AM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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Depending upon the exact composition of the 1080 that you are using the soft spine with a hard edge could be due to the spine being too thick to form martensite while the edge was thin enough to harden. This can happen with the shallow hardening steels.

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