jim beam wrote: Peter Cole wrote: Walt Shekrota wrote: Is there a difference? Can you use the wrong ones? Thanks. -Walt "Chrome steel" is a steel alloy with 1-2%% chromium added for corrosion resistance. in low concentrations like that, no it's not, it's added to harden the material. it stabilizes a martensitic structure formed in heat treatment.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:37:24 +0000 (UTC), alvinj@Example.com wrote: Polymer Man <ncarothers@tecrep.com> wrote: Nice find, good stuff. Yeah, same here, Dennis. :) Funny how little has changed huh? Reads like its "old", you know? ...well written and easy to follow etc. :) ...was feeling that way when... Toosite and Sorbite dated it as "old as dirt". LOL :) Again, funny
Stephen wrote: All unhardened at the moment I have to send them off to get them heat treated in Melbourne. Flat ground Steel bought at the Melbourne Knifemakers Guild Show from Keith Spencer You ever speak to him over the phone? Nice chap :-) I still have to cut the tang but other then that they are done. Im not going to finish them off someone else is. Rough ground with
> ...the edge itself is hollow ground with an 8" wheel. Then the belly is smoothed and thinned. This is all before heat treat. It is done freehand, without jigs or fixtures. After heat treat (which I do myself) another 0.005" is taken off... -Frank Ah there it is, Frank. :) The reason you don't like anything other than air hardening steels. You ever try heat treating water or
"Kevin" <dontemailme@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:KOglk.137949$7O1.134781@newsfe12.ams2... Dave Osborne wrote: When I was a lad, if memory serves correctly, we used to dip hot ferrous parts into a bucket of old engine oil. This gave them a blue/black finish and I'm pretty sure we called it "blueing". Anyway, I've been Googling and I'm a bit confused, cos blueing
