After proper heat treatment or cold drawing hardening, high carbon steel wire has high strength and hardness, high elastic limit and fatigue limit (especially notched fatigue limit), cutting function is acceptable, but welding function and cold plastic deformation ability is poor.

Hot dip galvanizing is then oiled and chromed. The quality of hot-galvanized sheet produced by this method is significantly improved compared with that by wet galvanizing method. It is only valuable for small-scale production. Continuous galvanizing production line includes a series of pretreatment procedures, such as alkali degreasing, hydrochloric acid pickling, water washing, solvent coating, drying, etc., and the original plate needs to be annealed in cover furnace before entering the galvanizing line.