Question: We have a 4340 steel that is used for gear production by our customer. The production sequence is melting, forging, primary heat treatment (normalizing and/or annealing), machining, stress relieving, final heat treatment (surface hardening). To obtain the optimum balance of machinability and high hardness, which will be better for the primary heat treatment, normalizing or annealing?

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