[TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is my question.

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

Normalize at least...
Tho i'm no metallurgist,
  It'd be nice to harden and temper it
as not all metal work operations are hot.

On 10/28/2010 11:49 AM, Jason Nass wrote:
> Just finished up an anvil bick of 4140. I'm not overly familiar with using
> it for tools, so I am undecided whether to heat treat it and risk it being
> to brittle to deal with impact, or just leave it normalized. I'd imagine
> that being it is a high strength alloy, it should hold up to having hot
> steel hammered around it, especially being as I ain't gonna be using no 12#
> sledges on it. What thoughts might you metallurgist types have on the
> matter?
>
> Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
> me at wargoth.com
>
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