[TheForge] Heat treat for Titanium

[Bruce Freeman]

Well...I'm no expert on titanium, but I wouldn't think
that heat treating would have any bearing on the
matter.  Steel is kinda unique, in that it is an
iron-carbon alloy.  It is because of the properties of
the various iron-carbon species that hardening and
tempering work the way they do.

For example, you anneal steel by heating it to red
(above critical) an cooling REAL slowly, and you
harden it by heating it likewise and quenching it in
water.  In contrast, most metals are annealed by
bringing them up to a red heat (or at least till soft
- as red heat melts aluminum, for example) and
quenching in water.  

So, I don't know what the procedure would be for
titanium, if indeed there is any, to harden it.  Seems
to me it's just "nacherly" hard.

You might try work-hardening it.  That works on most
metals.

Bruce
OR/NJ


--- Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net> wrote:

> A while back Pat McCarty brought a flint striker
> made form titanium to a BAM
> meeting.  It was real impressive  and put out a
> shower of white sparks.
> Well I got a piece of titanium and made a striker
> this last week. Not
> knowing how to heat treat it I just normalized it. 
> Something isn't right,
> I get an occational white spark but only about one
> out of every 6-10 hits.
> 
> I called Pat and he couldn't remember what he did to
> get the nice sparks.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea on how to heat treat it to
> get good sparks.  I
> thought I'd ask before I experimented and runed it.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
> 
> 
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