Welcome

Welcome to the Heat Treatment Master Control Manual. There are lots of books on heat treatment, but this is the first manual that I know of that gives you all the information needed to properly heat-treat a large percentage of the popular grades of tool steels, alloy steels, stainless steels, and other specialty metals produced under American standards. It is not a manual for metal grades produced in the European or Far Eastern grade designations. It is based on American grades of metals. Can some of the techniques be utilized with overseas grades? Yes, but not without careful study and proper metallurgical analysis. As you will see, thermal treatment is a very scientific as well as a very tightly controlled and specific treatment. It is not a hit-or-miss subject or a magician’s sleight of hand. It is proven and it works!