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

[Jason Nass]

I know better than that Peter. I rounded up about 4.5 gallons of used motor
oil from the maintainance garage up the street and stuck it into a metal
roofing tar bucket I had laying around.

Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
me at wargoth.com


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Not enough volume to avoid a flash fire and the smoke from drain oil is hard
on your lungs, respectfully.

On 10/28/2010 1:20 PM, Mark A. Pesetsky wrote:
> Do an oil change on your car and save the oil for the job.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jason Nass
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:44 PM
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>
> Good point... guess I'm on the search for random oil... LOL
>
> Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
> me at wargoth.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of peter fels&  
> phoebe palmer
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is my
question.
>
> 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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