[TheForge] Fw: Fw: flint strikers

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Dave,
    What are the proportions and ingredients of the brine you use.  I
would like to try it. :)  Always willing to try a different method!

Daniel
www.irontreeworks.com

On 3/24/09, David E. Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If you have trouble with cracking with 1095 it is most likely that you had
> your steel too hot when you quenched.  You need to be at just
> non-magnetic -- any above this and you are asking for cracks.  I also like
> brine much better that plain water for queching 1095 -- at first they would
> not seem to make sense but while brine is faster than water it also provides
> an much more even quench.  This is because steam pockets do not form on the
> surface.  Quenching this way will provide a very very hard and very very
> brittle tool.  That is why I always temper.  YMMV  (Your mileage may vary).
> If you have a method and it works -- it works.  Or as I have heard Dan say
> "It works doesn't it."
>
> Dave
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:40 PM
> To: "TheForge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Fw:  flint strikers
>
> > Dan, So little hardness is lost with a low temperature temper that it
> > would
> > seem to handle these the same as woodworking tools.  If you temper in an
> > oven at 325 to 350 F for 1 hour you only loose a point or two of Rockwell
> > C
> > but gain a lot of toughness.  They will still be rather brittle but very
> > functional.
> >
> > If you color temper a very light straw from retained heat is all you need,
> > but the oven is safer in not over tempering.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:20 AM
> > To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: [TheForge] flint strikers
> >
> >> I know we covered this before, but what was the consensus of opinion , to
> >> temper or use as quenched?  From hay rake tines to files, seems they
> >> would
> >> be too brittle and hard to shave sparks in "as quenched". I expect it
> >> will
> >> be a "resultant" issue , as in, do two and see which showers best.
> >>
> >>
> >> dan tull
> >> Georgia
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