[TheForge] chinese ASOs

[Jerry Frost]

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From: "Larry and Pat Brown" <lp.brown@verizon.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] chinese ASOs


> Why not try to braze the face on and after it cools try to heat the top
and
> edges of the plate with a rosebud torch just enough to harden them and
> quench with water, see if the residual heat will draw the temper then
> requench to stop. If there isn't enough use a propane torch to heat it to
> color. For the purpose the face doesn't need to be hard all to way
through.
> L Brown
>

Actually the face needs to be as inflexible as possible or it will
eventually break the braze. Well, maybe not as inflexible as "possible" but
the face needs to be rigid to the point a hammer won't cause deformation.

I've done quite a bit of high stress brazed joins, making and modifying
drill bits as a driller. I had use a very hard build up rod before grinding
and brazing on carbides. 7018 was too flexible, the braze would fail or the
carbide would break as it compressed in use.

I don't know if an anvil face would deform under a hand hammer but it's easy
enough to cover the possibility.

Frosty
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