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

[Jason Nass]

Lid and 2 fire extiguishers... Like I said in my original post, just not
familiar with this specific alloy, and just wondered how it held up without
heat treating. I've done a lot of that over the years.


Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
me at wargoth.com

-----Original Message-----
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palmer
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is my
question.

Excellent Jason..Keep a lid handy anyway.
I learned that the hard way.
I kinda owe you an apology for assuming
you knew less than you obviously do.

Them roofing tar buckets are a mainstay around here.

On 10/28/2010 7:54 PM, Jason Nass wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of peter fels&  
> phoebe palmer
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:19 PM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is 
> my question.
>
> 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-----
>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jason Nass
>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:44 PM
>> To: 'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] to heat treat or not to heat treat... that is 
>> my
> question.
>> Good point... guess I'm on the search for random oil... LOL
>>
>> Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
>> me at wargoth.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of peter fels& 
>> phoebe palmer
>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:18 PM
>> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
>> 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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