Heat Treatment

Posts Tagged ‘Hardening’

Quenching, Hardening, Tempering, Anealing, Decarburization, Differential Tempering, Normalizing, Martensite, Troostite… what the hell does all this mean?

When would you use carburizing rather than nitriding to case harden steel?

You would like to precipitation harden a aluminum-copper alloy (4% copper). Above 500 C, this material is in a single phase. Describe a heat treatment process to achieve maximum strength by precipitation hardening. Comment on the following (i) the heat treatment procedure to achieve maximum strength and prevent overaging.

I have an old Generation 2 Glock .40 that I’m thinking of sending to a gunsmith to have it refinished. Most of the original finish has come off, it is a former police department issue firearm, and has had thousands and thousands of rounds fired through it. I like the old Western guns and I admire the “case hardening colors” on some of them, I’m thinking about sending the old Glock’s pistol’s slide to be refinished in old Western case hardened finish.

What do you think?

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The working of steel, annealing, heat treating, and hardening of carbon and alloy steel

• Package Quantity: (1) 10 Pound Pail
• Type: Surface-Hardening
• Container Size: 10 Lbs.
• Container Type: Pail (re-sealable)

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Surface-Hardening Compounds Type: Surface-Hardening Container Size: 10 Lbs. Container Type: Pail (re-sealable)

Made in USA TR-CHER-10 10lb Instant Cherry Case Hardening Compound