[TheForge] informal heat treat suggestions

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

> I'd be grateful for suggestions on a shade-tree methodology for heat treating some small S1 steel forgings.
Ive got a couple dozen corkscrews ( wurms, properly speaking) all 
forged up and formed with the little eyes punched out.(poor 
widdle wurms!)
  Needless to say, there are a lot of heats ( wurms can be 
infuriating to get right) and i don't know just how decarborized 
they are at this point.
S1 is an air hardening steel and the small cross section means 
that they will cool quite quickly, especially the tips.
Tempering also promises to be tricky because of the shape and taper.
Do i need to process all these wurms in a welded steel box?
Help'd be appreciated....Pete F
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