If you've ever watched a bar of red-hot metal emerge from the furnace at a rolling mill, you might wonder how that scaly chunk of material became the smooth, shiny and accurate length of steel you just loaded into a lathe's bar feeder. Machinists know it as cold-finished bar stock. It got that way thanks to a process known as bar peeling.
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Originally published on CTE: 2017-08-15
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/process-creates-steel-thats-peeling/
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