[TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy

[Jerry Frost]

Lynn:

Make a small enclosure with the brick, heat it with a burner and place the 
work being heat treated in the cavity. You'll be able to see the heat in the 
steel and not run the risk of over heating, etc. Same for annealing except 
for blocking the open ends and leaving it be.

If you simply lay the steel on a brick with another brick laying on it, 
you'll get hot spots at the points of contact. This is less than optimum.

Frosty
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Emrich" <theatre_weapons at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:57 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy


> Jeffery,
> You just gave me a great idea. The heavy bricks would
> be a great way to aneal high carbon steel. Just put
> the steel between the heated bricks. Thanks!
> Lynn
>
>
> --- Jeffrey Polaski <jeff.polaski at rgs.uci.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure someone who actually knows can answer this,
>> but the
>> "insulating" bricks seem to be better *insulators*,
>> so I imagine they
>> loose heat the slowest. But they have less mass, so
>> they cooler sooner
>> than the heavy-duty ones.
>>
>> The heavy-duty ones take a lot longer to heat up,
>> and stay hot much
>> longer. I can still feel heat from my forge for 8 --
>> 12 hours or so when
>> I use heavy-duty bricks.
>>
>> BTW, is there a better name for these bricks, other
>> than "insulating"
>> and heavy-duty? Is that clear to everyone? Is that
>> the terminology
>> people use when they talk about these things?
>>
>
>
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