This SAE Standard prescribes the procedure for making hardenability tests and recording results on shallow and medium hardening steels, but not deep hardening steels that will normally air harden. Included are procedures using the 1 in (25 mm) standard hardenability end quench specimen for both medium and shallow hardening steels, Surface-Area-Center (SAC) method for shallow hardening steels, subsize method for bars less than 1 1/4 in (32 mm) in diameter, and methods for determining carburized hardenability. Any hardenability tests made under other conditions than those given in this SAE Standard will not be deemed standard and will be subject to agreement between supplier and user. Whenever check tests are made, all laboratories concerned must arrange to use the same alternate procedure with reference to test specimen and method of grinding for hardness testing.