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Steel pallet banding is usually 1095 steel, or similar high carbon plain steel. It's fairly thick and makes good springs.
Heat to non-magnetic, quench into 30 wt oil, clean it off, temper at 450-460*F for 30 minutes. It should be a nice purple/royal blue when done. If it's too stiff, re-temper at 460-470*F...and so on and so on. If I remember right, I was using about 510*F the last time I did it with these. This made for a fairly flexible spring that wouldn't take a set easy at all.
Heat to non-magnetic, quench into 30 wt oil, clean it off, temper at 450-460*F for 30 minutes. It should be a nice purple/royal blue when done. If it's too stiff, re-temper at 460-470*F...and so on and so on. If I remember right, I was using about 510*F the last time I did it with these. This made for a fairly flexible spring that wouldn't take a set easy at all.