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I understand that no 2 situations are the same, conditions vary. My question is if I'm casting high carbon steel, between the melting, pouring, and cooling, how much carbon is lost? I know there are a lot of variables here, and this a broad and uneducated question. However my search results yielded nothing closely related to the info I'm looking for. I know there are a few metallurgical engineers on here. I know the risk is high without the proper ppe (even with proper ppe if SHTF) as well as most crucibles are made for non-ferrous metals. I have a little notebook for casting separate from my general forgework notebook. It's awful bare of info on casting steel. For those worried about my safety I'm not going to do this anytime soon, I'm not educated enough or equipped well enough to do this in the near future. I've looked at backyardmetalcasting and they don't have much on casting steel. I'm just doing my homework right now. Now that I've given all this tangential and extraneous information I'll get back to the point. My question: how much carbon should I expect to lose in casting steel? For an example let's say 1080. In the future I want to cast a steel anvil, also one day to cast mild steel body onto a high carbon face (feel like that's gonna be a booger), just for the sake of doing it. I expect both to be in the 10lb range. Once again, I'm just doing some homework now, if you have any material you would recommend I digest I'm all ears. Thanks, seriously, can't find much on casting steel at the level of understanding I am.

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