C Craft
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It runs in my head that I heard somebody say many threads ago on some forum of using an electric skillet to heat treat!
Sounds plausible to me! It just so happens there is just such a beast lurking in my cabinet that hasn't been used in years.
As I remember this was once an expensive electric skillet. It is shaped more of a rectangle that a skillets shape. The long and short of it is this skillet got a handle broke off in an overturned moving truck years ago at the time I was getting out of the Army, and has never been used since.
If I remember correctly it has capabilities of 550*. It also has a lid to maintain the heat flow and I was thinking of drilling a hole in the lid just big enough to let one of those thermometers with the probe rest against the bottom to constantly read the temp while HT.
So does all this sound like it might work or am I just :bud: on this idea????
Would you just let the blades rest on the bottom or would it be a good idea to rack them in slots cut into firebrick?
Anyone got thoughts on this idea? :duh:
Edited to correct my terminology:
OK, I got my terminology all screwed up. I am talking about tempering. I will be HT with my propane forge. I was trying to type this thread this morning and watch my Grandson, so let my mind wander off of what I was trying to say! I would rather be messed up on what I said than letting him get into something he shouldn't have!
Sounds plausible to me! It just so happens there is just such a beast lurking in my cabinet that hasn't been used in years.
As I remember this was once an expensive electric skillet. It is shaped more of a rectangle that a skillets shape. The long and short of it is this skillet got a handle broke off in an overturned moving truck years ago at the time I was getting out of the Army, and has never been used since.
If I remember correctly it has capabilities of 550*. It also has a lid to maintain the heat flow and I was thinking of drilling a hole in the lid just big enough to let one of those thermometers with the probe rest against the bottom to constantly read the temp while HT.
So does all this sound like it might work or am I just :bud: on this idea????
Would you just let the blades rest on the bottom or would it be a good idea to rack them in slots cut into firebrick?
Anyone got thoughts on this idea? :duh:
Edited to correct my terminology:
OK, I got my terminology all screwed up. I am talking about tempering. I will be HT with my propane forge. I was trying to type this thread this morning and watch my Grandson, so let my mind wander off of what I was trying to say! I would rather be messed up on what I said than letting him get into something he shouldn't have!
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