Fw: Re: [SEL] Heat Treating Metal

[nick]

Hope you get it this time Tommy 
 
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From: nick
Date: 09/08/05 19:40:40
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] Heat Treating Metal
 
Hi Tommy
if you have Hardox over their that will be a good type of steel to use
as it is very hard wearing i always use it when repairing digger buckets
you may be able to get some from your local caterpillar dealer as they will
likely use on their machines they do over hear
 
 
Nick Holden
Banbury
Oxfordshire (UK)
  nick at holden1.net
http://community.webshots.com/user/nickholden
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From: Judge Tommy Turner
Date: 09/07/05 05:09:26
To: Stationary Engine List
Subject: [SEL] Heat Treating Metal
 
Some of you saw the Miami engine I had at Portland.  The governor is
actuated by means of an angled catch that strikes the gas valve.  Since
I had to make this, it was constructed out of cold rolled steel.
However, it takes a beating and is showing wear after probably 40 hours
of running.  I need to make this out of some type material that I can
heat treat to make it really hard.  Do any of you know of a type of
material that I can redily machine but then heat treat (on my own) to
make it super tough?  I used to have some type material here that was
about 1/8 by one inch.  You could bore it, mill it, etc. and then heat
it cherry red, quench it in oil and you couldn't touch it with a file.
I don't know what the composition was however.  Anyone have any tips for
me as to what I could use?
 
Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY
 
 
 
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