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After messing with all of it I think all the "eye of newt and toe of frog" that gets added to make clays is mostly for the dramatic effect to keep up ...
Hi Ed, in the ABS there are far too many toes involved in edge quenching for me to succesfully avoid stepping on any of them by discussing in detail w...
Hello Dennis, I like to try to let other people give as much input as they can, because I am certain people can grow tired of my droning on, but I got...
A tip for breaking steel- since I have to do a lot of it for metallurgical testing and analysis, I first score the piece (always keeping it cool) wit...
What steel was used for the demonstration? Believe it or not this is very important to the methods and results. This is a post I put on swordfo...
Steve, excellent, do you have any further information about the oil, or the people who supply it? Knifemakers are in a serious need of as many quench...
[quote name='ABS Webmaster' date='23 September 2010 - 10:01 PM' timestamp='1285297281' post='806'] Kevin: Thank you for sharing your resear...
Bobby, I know I was one of your instructors at Haywood and while I cannot see myself, nor remember, recommending 450F for 1075, if I mistakenly did I ...
Seth, if you plan on shipping it to anybody, I would hate to see you get too far into a situation only to find the true difficulties when it is too la...
[quote name='Seth Howard' date='29 July 2010 - 05:24 PM' timestamp='1280442272' post='603'] It looks like the only way I can purchase low temp salts...
Phil, I can understand your grief, to give you an idea there was a time when $250 would have got me a 55 gallon drum of #50, and I used to sell o...
Heat Bath is rather tight lipped about their ingredients but the MSDS sheet for Thermo-quench salts show Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate, and Sodium...
Ouch! As I feared it is a Brinell tester, it uses a ball indenter and requires that you measure the crater left by the kg's of weight applied, but...
Gary,I would heavily research the brand of tester you have to be certain of your questions, particularly the oil. On the Kg thing you may be reading ...