Posted 9/19/2010 14:58 (#1365770 - in reply to #1365765) Subject: Re: Can you take the hardness out of bolt.
northwest tennessee
I want to think from a class I had one time that if you heat it cherry red and cool slowly it will take hardness out. If you heat cherry red and cool fast it will make it hard and brittle. I may be wrong and has been a long time.