[TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy

[Chris Kilpatrick]

I put a 5/8 inch rod in the forge and then stick in the ash bucket or the vermiculite bucket to heat the media before trying to anneal thin stock.  If it is really thin, then I I use two bars of thicker bar stock that are tapped on either end to snug up to my thin stock.  Put the whole thing in the forge and then into the ash bucket.  For people just trying this, wear gloves when you remove metal from the ash, it may still be very warm, even after 24 hours!!!!

-Chris K.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynn Emrich" <theatre_weapons at yahoo.com>
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:38:03 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
> I jumped on the slow cooling bricks because I have had
> trouble annealing thin stock in the past. I did
> everything I've always done. As example I would
> normalize, heat to nonmagnetic + some and air cool
> more than once, than heat to critical bury in pearlite
> for cooling. The thin stock, in this case some power
> hack saw blades a customer wanted a knife made of, and
> when drilling had problems.
> I haven't had thin stock to anneal lately so it hasn't
> been a problem but the bricks seems to be better than
> some of my past techniques. Heating to critical and
> drooping to the bottom of my Don Fogg type forge and
> turning off the gas. Not correct but quick and easy.
> Lynn
> 
> 
> --- Bill Roberts <robertsb at pig.net> wrote:
> 
> > fwiw,
> > I've always annealed ferrous...both low and high
> > carbon, in a 5  gallon bucket of warm sand or lime. Get the material
> > hot and plunge  it into or bury it in the sand or lime and leave it
> > over night.  Annealed in the morning.
> > 2 cents,
> > bill
> > On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> >
> > > Before you take what I do as gospel though, I'd
> > like one of the  > guys here who do a lot of heat treating to jump
> > in.
> >
> > Bill Roberts
> > www.CustomDesignMetalArts.com
> >
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