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

[Jason Nass]

Good point... guess I'm on the search for random oil... LOL

Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
me at wargoth.com


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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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