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koyote
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$168, including a used vise.
Now I have to mount it up in the morning and give it a go:
Now I have to mount it up in the morning and give it a go:
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koyote
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I never really considered it before. I have been using an interrupted quench method with any straightening needed being done with a 2x4 and a preheated vise, or just gloves.
A local MS got me going on this, and well, I'm going to run it in the morning and see what I can do. Obviously not going to do a lot for the large convexed stuff, but for the 1/8 and 3/32 stock blades I'm expecting to find some good consistency and taime savings.
I do need to figure out how fast I can go. I often heat treat 5-10 blades in a forge run. Of course, with normalizing and doing the quenching heat on each blade, it's going to have time to cool.
A local MS got me going on this, and well, I'm going to run it in the morning and see what I can do. Obviously not going to do a lot for the large convexed stuff, but for the 1/8 and 3/32 stock blades I'm expecting to find some good consistency and taime savings.
I do need to figure out how fast I can go. I often heat treat 5-10 blades in a forge run. Of course, with normalizing and doing the quenching heat on each blade, it's going to have time to cool.
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koyote
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I haven't built the mounting for the table yet. So i clamped it in the forge vise.
1: it works. file skipping on the 1080 and the 15n20 blades, an hss bit won't touch it. good.
2: straight! nice!
3: clean, fast. easy
4: if you haven't bought it yet, I highly recommend going with the 3 inch wide instead of the 2 inch wide copper. What I've got is 1x2, and it's working, but it's only getting 3 solid quenches before it needs a cooling period. with the 3 inch I'd definitely get 4, maybe 5. Not a huge deal, really, since I always have stuff I need to use the oil tank for in the lineup. And it's easy enough to heat treat 9 blades in groups of 3 over a shop day. But I shoulda spent the extra $45.
5: I dunno where anyone else can find it, but I used onlinemetals.com, where I get machining supplies. the "random length" cuts are 10-12 inches and a bit cheaper than measured cuts. MS Vagnanino did tell me that it's better to have the ~11 inches than his 6 inch plates, and I agree.
1: it works. file skipping on the 1080 and the 15n20 blades, an hss bit won't touch it. good.
2: straight! nice!
3: clean, fast. easy
4: if you haven't bought it yet, I highly recommend going with the 3 inch wide instead of the 2 inch wide copper. What I've got is 1x2, and it's working, but it's only getting 3 solid quenches before it needs a cooling period. with the 3 inch I'd definitely get 4, maybe 5. Not a huge deal, really, since I always have stuff I need to use the oil tank for in the lineup. And it's easy enough to heat treat 9 blades in groups of 3 over a shop day. But I shoulda spent the extra $45.
5: I dunno where anyone else can find it, but I used onlinemetals.com, where I get machining supplies. the "random length" cuts are 10-12 inches and a bit cheaper than measured cuts. MS Vagnanino did tell me that it's better to have the ~11 inches than his 6 inch plates, and I agree.