In article >,
Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> >
> > So how do you feel about recycled steel?
> >
> > Is it simply a matter of forging temperatures?
> >
> > I'm very much a believer in recycling whenever and wherever possible...
>
> Steel, asphalt, sugar. In every case it's easy to screw them up with
> the wrong temperature sequence. In every case they have to be melted
> completely and the impurities removed to refine (scrap steel is much
> easier to refine than iron ore, ground road is much easier to refine
> than crude oil, shattered sugar is much easier to refine than cane in
> the field).
>
> Get the melt and purify step right and the source no longer matters.
> Get the melt and purify step wrong and you've carried the old problems
> into the new product.

A simplification of a complex process? <g>
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