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Heat Treating and Metallurgy Discussion of heat treatment and metallurgy in knife making. |
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I think I over heated my s90v...is it possible?
Wondering if someone could help me here. I finished a couple of knives out of s90v and gave them to my Dad who works somewhere that has a heat treat oven. He brought the temperature up to its highest point, 2040 degrees. He put the blades in, let the oven cycle back up, and then left them for 20 minutes. He nor I have ever heat treated a blade before. We were going off of the instructions on Crucible's website. He did an interupt quench in oil and let them cool to the touch. There was lots of scale, so he had taken them to the sand blaster that his work has. It had an aluminum media. Pretty fine. Well, the blades look like #@$%. There are large pits and large areas of pits with large pits. It has me feeling in the pits! I kind of expected some warpage because; one these were the first two blades that I had ground and two, it was the first time my Dad had quenched a blade. To my surprise there was very little warpage, but some near the tip of the knife. What do you think happed, or what did I do wrong to cause the pitting? I can email pics if neccessary, but I do not know how to post them on message boards.
Bryan :confused: Last edited by Bryan McCall; 09-17-2005 at 02:18 AM. |
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The fault lies in not using a protective atmosphere in the furnace, or better yet, using a salt bath to heat it. Either way keeps the carbon in the steel from being drawn to the surface, causing all that deep scale. The loss of carbon and the scale (carbon) formed caused the pits in the blade. Too bad. |
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Thanks Mr. Robinson. I guess I learned the hard way. Oh well, I will now be sending my knives to someone who KNOWS how to do it. The really bad part is that one of the knives was for my neighbor who is in the Special Forces, 18B for you Army guys. At least he is not out any money on the deal. I'll be at the Spirit of Steel show today in Grapevine, so maybe I'll pick one up for him there.
Bryan |
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At those temperaturs steel can oxidize rapidly. The solution is to wrap the blade in stainless steel foil or heat treat in salt.
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