[TheForge] Tempering colors

[Andy Gladish]

What Dave S. said, plus if you got scale you went way too hot.
The colors run at pizza oven temperatures, not forging temps.

On Fri, 01 May 2009 16:54:42 -0700, David Childress <trollkeep at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I have some hot rolled 1/8 X 3/4 bar stock and I soaked it in muriatic
> acid to remove mill scale and rust.  I tried to heat it from one end
> to get the run of colors as an ornamental finish all I got was a scale
> coating.  Any idea what I did wrong?  I know that the dispay should be
> less impressive than if the metal started shiny but I still think that
> I should have gotten some spectrum of colors.
>
> David Childress

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