Kevin R. Cashen
Kevin R. Cashen
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Normalizing And Forging Temperatures

I would agree that these are less than controlled tests to produce reliable data, and could be one of those situations where assumptions could produce...

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Normalizing And Forging Temperatures

Not at all, careful normalizing is essential, the only time you may encounter issues is if your quenchant is already borderline in its cooling capabil...

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Normalizing And Forging Temperatures

The lowered hardenability is due to finer grain size producing pearlite much more readily. Pearlite initiates at the grain boundaries, particularly a...

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Cruforge V

[quote name='Lin Rhea' date='06 March 2011 - 08:46 PM' timestamp='1299462387' post='1300'] ...I do want to stress that I pay close attention to edge...

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How To...multiple Quench

What Dan has outlined is an excellent approach if one wishes to use multiple heat cycles to affect the steel, and the nice thing about it is that it d...

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How To...multiple Quench

[quote name='BrionTomberlin' date='04 March 2011 - 11:45 PM' timestamp='1299300343' post='1277'] Hello Linda and welcome. Are you asking about quenc...

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How To...multiple Quench

[quote name='Linda Williams' date='04 March 2011 - 03:53 PM' timestamp='1299272006' post='1273'] I am needing some help on Multiple Quench...I am tr...

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Normalizing And Forging Temperatures

[quote name='Ed Clarke' date='27 February 2011 - 09:29 PM' timestamp='1298860199' post='1253'] Hello all! I am currently normalizing a full ta...

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Cruforge V

[quote name='Lin Rhea' date='23 February 2011 - 09:35 AM' timestamp='1298471721' post='1227'] I agree that 53rc is too low for a servicable blade. A...

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Cruforge V

[quote name='Michael Ely' date='22 February 2011 - 02:12 PM' timestamp='1298401968' post='1221'] I have a 1" shaft of Cruforge V and have used it fo...

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Cracking During Forging

[quote name='Ryan Baswell' date='12 February 2011 - 10:38 AM' timestamp='1297525081' post='1170'] nothing to worry about Kevin I would never piggy b...

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Cracking During Forging

[quote name='Ryan Baswell' date='12 February 2011 - 09:54 AM' timestamp='1297522491' post='1166'] I never doubted any of your experience. Before joi...

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Cracking During Forging

Unless the atmosphere is loaded with sulfur the heat source will make no difference, the steel doesn’t know what heats it, all it cares about are th...

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Induction Heating

[quote name='Dennis Clark' date='03 February 2011 - 10:40 AM' timestamp='1296747627' post='1109'] As usual, a great reply Kevin. After continually ...

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Induction Heating

There is one point that puzzles me about the information you have received, I do not understand the concept of induction heating not exceeding "critic...

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