[TheForge] Re: hardening and tenpering of H-13

Wed Jan 16 23:08:02 2002

John where are you getting your H13? Are they a national company(Canada)? Also I think that I may have met you at CanIRON are you the pattern maker aka cool swage blocks.
Daryl

John Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

>12 feet long??!!: ) I got the basics of heat treating H13  from Grant Sarver
>on Keenjunk a few years ago.  I usually heat the working end to the yellow
>heat, the rest of the tool to an orange sometimes if the stock is heavy I
>don't heat treat the shaft.  I then cool the tool in moving air (wave the tool
>around/blow on it )  till down to a dull red then I put it aside to cool.  I
>then heat the whole tool in the forge often leaving the working end out of the
>fire much of the time if the shaft gets a little hotter than the dull red in a
>shadow I don't worry about it.  I then let it cool till I can hold it.  There
>may be things I am doing wrong but it seems to work.  One of the things I like
>about it is it doesn't seem to be that fussy to heat treat but it does  need
>the tempering step for cold work..
>
>John Newman
>
>Roger Olsen wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Can you give more details regarding your tempering process on H-13,  say
>> you have a tool you have built that is 12' long,  do you evenly forge heat
>> it to a yellow heat,  allow to air cool and then slowly reheat the working
>> end, say the last 3 inches or so in the forge or with a torch to a faint
>> red in the shadows and then allow to air cool once again.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Roger Olsen
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