Damascus;
as far as I am concerned you can "CAN" your Goody-Goody Bit. This all started with "YOUR" correction of Jack Rowe.
Firstly Jack Rowes method of tempering a spring (actually drawing the temper we say here) that is after heating to cherry red and quenching the next thing you do is draw the temper by re heating again.
I very politely, I thought, came to Mr Rowe's defence & simply stated the term he used was correct.
I believe the term "Temper" is correctly used alone. To temper the heat treated steel you Draw the Hardness, you do not draw the temper.
This could have all ended right here, "EXCEPT" you jumped in with both barrels about the Superior Intelligence of the Brits IE "IF" the Brits do it this way then it is Unquestionably right.
I will whip this dead dog no longer but simply stand firm that evidence has been given that to simply say one has tempered a piece of steel is correct usage of the word, while to say one has drawn the temper is Technically incorrect, regardless of how commonly used it may be (By the Brits).
