[TheForge] Superquench/hardening power hammer dies

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I must object most  sternly to even the faintest suggestion of using 
good cold beer as a quench medium!
Have you no basic values sir?
And don't blow it out your nose either!
Pete F

Jerry Smith wrote:

> The best super quench is a cold one at the end of a work day. You can 
> harden mild steel to something harder, but not as hard as you can make 
> tool steel or specialty steels.
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> Jerry
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