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Hot rolled or forged steel has undesirable characteristics which can be eliminated or modified by cold finishing to make a product more acceptable to the engineering industry. Because of its enhanced appearance, cold finished steel has become known as bright steel. Some of the properties are:

With carbon manganese and silicon as their only significant alloys, black carbon steels are the simplest steels of the engineering steel group. Within their capabilities they play a very important role, and indeed, they make up a large part of industries use of steel.

Selection of the most suitable tool steel for incorporation into tools, jigs, and fixtures is fundamental to their satisfactory performance. As a first step in assisting the user to make a suitable selection, tool steels have been divided into well defined groups. The names used for the groups are self-explanatory, they are:

The stainless steels are the group of steels developed to resist corrosion in a wide range of hostile environments in which non-stainless steels suffer unacceptable damage. They can be used to advantage not only with liquid corrosive media, but also where resistance to oxidation and corrosion by reactive gases at high temperatures is required.