[TheForge] cast iron - Little Giant pulley

Fri Aug 9 16:52:01 2002

The casenite will only give you a superficial hardening suitable for wear 
resistance only.  It won't do a thing for hardening against the impact 
received by your hammer dies.

Dave Brown

>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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