Thursday 7 April 2011

An hour in my garage part 2



I managed to get into my garage for another hour tonight .
here is my heat treatment setup, a pile of thermalight blocks , a gas torch and tube full of veg oil.











Heating up












Nice and hot












I then heat the oil to a point where I can see small bubbles breaking on the surface of the oil.
I heat the blade again and check for magnetism and then quench in the oil












And if all goes well it looks like this . Nice and straight with no cracks. Once it's cool I give it get a good clean and then off to the kitchen oven to temper for an hour











I got bored waiting for things to cool down so I
started another one



Thanks for looking
Warren


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