Cast ironvs. Steel was Prowler V6

Greg Hermann bearbvd at sni.net
Mon Jun 7 18:44:53 GMT 1999


>
>The BASIC FUNDAMENTAL difference 'tween Cast IRON and STEEL is that
>Steel is merely cast iron with CARBON added to the molten Cast Iron....
>
>You stated the opposite, hopefully it was a type-o or the like?
>

Nope--

Steel has from 0.02% carbon up maybe 1.00%

Cast iron has usually between 2.50% and 4.00% carbon.

The original (Bessemer) process for making steel out of pig iron actually
BUR?NED the carbon out of the iron.

Greg





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