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

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

It's a good, tough alloy but if you  harden it, you'll want to proceed 
with tempering without delay i'm told.

On 10/28/2010 10:58 PM, Jason Nass wrote:
> 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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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of peter fels&  phoebe
> 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-----
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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
>>> 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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