Brent: heat threatment.
Mar. 25th, 2012 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madmaxthesniperBlade and lock has to be brought to 1550F and quenched in lukewarm oil until cool. Cool beans! Considering that regular kitchen gas stove can barely manage 575F, I have to roll a big gun.
This digitally controlled electric kiln can easily manage 2300F and then some (hi ConEdison!), so I put this reactor to warm up, which should take about an hour till it reaches this temperature, and went to construct blade support.
It is nothing else but a regular wire cloth hanger, which surprisenly survived 3 kiln cycles already. All brittle and cranky, it will last another time for sure. I tied the blade and the lock with the soldering wire used in.. well, wire solders (upd: welders) in body shops. So when the blade will reach desired F, I'll use pliers to pull them both out by wire.
To be continued.
P.S. By the time I finfished writng it, temperature inside the Reactor reached 1350F.
This digitally controlled electric kiln can easily manage 2300F and then some (hi ConEdison!), so I put this reactor to warm up, which should take about an hour till it reaches this temperature, and went to construct blade support.
It is nothing else but a regular wire cloth hanger, which surprisenly survived 3 kiln cycles already. All brittle and cranky, it will last another time for sure. I tied the blade and the lock with the soldering wire used in.. well, wire solders (upd: welders) in body shops. So when the blade will reach desired F, I'll use pliers to pull them both out by wire.
To be continued.
P.S. By the time I finfished writng it, temperature inside the Reactor reached 1350F.
