DiverTexas
Well-Known Member
To heat treating 01 steel.
Did my first heat treating on some knife blades I made.
I've got them tempering in an oven at the moment.
A few pics of the process.
My very basic set up with some fire bricks.
Heating the steel up past 1450 degrees to a dull red glow.
Getting ready to test it to make sure it has lost it's magnetic ability.
Quenching it in preheated canola oil in a soup can.
Starting on the second one.
Quenching it next.
Pull them from the oil.
They don't look too good now, but all the scale should sand off after they finish their second round of tempering.
To be continued when I get more work done on them.
Did my first heat treating on some knife blades I made.
I've got them tempering in an oven at the moment.
A few pics of the process.
My very basic set up with some fire bricks.
Heating the steel up past 1450 degrees to a dull red glow.
Getting ready to test it to make sure it has lost it's magnetic ability.
Quenching it in preheated canola oil in a soup can.
Starting on the second one.
Quenching it next.
Pull them from the oil.
They don't look too good now, but all the scale should sand off after they finish their second round of tempering.
To be continued when I get more work done on them.
