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Old 08-07-2019, 01:07 AM
Rasmus Kristens Rasmus Kristens is offline
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Originally Posted by jimmontg View Post
Try to heat a coupon to around 1700/950c degrees bright reddish orange and air cool it with an air blast from canned air if you don't have an air compressor.
I'w been reading through your post a few times now. And i have a question.
This temperature seems quite high compared to the temeratures i aim for when heat treating the carbon steels i work with.
Is this because the L6 steel is an alloysteel or what is the reason for this temperature?

One more thing. I have never annealed steel before.
How is this done? Get it to critical temperature (which i don't know) and slowly cool?`
Is that it?
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