[TheForge] informal heat treat suggestions

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Kevin and Grant...thank you both and thanks for the correction....
Funny, I always ended up oil quenching S1 to get it hard enough 
for treadle hammer use and wondered what i was doing wrong.
The carbon loss i was concerned about is the result of forging it 
down from 1/2" stock and then shaping the wurm, which takes me a 
buncha heats...that dinky stuff looses heat fast.
Um, Bob...sigh...you are right of course...and when I started 
this batch of wurms many months ago, I used S1 hoping that would 
prove true...i now fuzzily recall...sigh..
The relentless march of oldtimer's disease goes on.
.......Thanks for the help...PF

schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
> S1 is fairly tough stuff even in the annealed state. I
> think I would try one out before any heat treat. They
> may already be hard enuf to pull a cork.
> 
> Bob
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> On Sep 18, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
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>>> I'd be grateful for suggestions on a shade-tree methodology for heat 
>>> treating some small S1 steel forgings.
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>> 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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