[TheForge] cast iron - Little Giant pulley

Fri Aug 9 16:45:00 2002

Why wouldn't mild steel work?
Why harden( case or deep) for hot work?

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:16:18 -0600 Cameron Stoker <[email protected]>
writes:
> Also, I've been thinking of making some new hammer dies from a36 and 
> then 
> casehardening them with casenite. Has anyone tried this? I worry 
> that the 
> case won't do much to stop the die from deforming deeper down in the 
> body 
> of the die. I can't really afford $250-$350 per set of dies, and it 
> is a 
> real pain to machine tool steel on my 3-in-1 mill.
>

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