Knife Heat Treat Oven Plans

They have a long history of building quality heat treat ovens and kilns.

Knife heat treat oven plans. Heat treater s guide practices and procedures for irons and stteels 2nd edition 1995 materials park oh 44073. 309 6 kb views. Work and heat treat steel. Here s what i ended up.

Start date oct 31 2010. Keeping it small and mobile was at the top of my criteria list. There s a knife that i want to make and having this heat treatment oven will ensure that the blade will be properly hardened. A preheating the annealed tool typically at 1250 degrees f.

Evenheat is the leader in knife makers heat treat ovens. New posts search forums. With the brick wire controller and thermocouples it was probably 500 600 in materials. The knife blade is then left to thaw to room temperature and is then tempered in the usual way.

I have no intention at this time of spending 1000 on an off the shelf unit for my hobby so i set out to design and build one myself. A combination of heating and cooling operations timed and applied to a metal in a solid state in a way that will produce desired properties. The definition of heat treatment. In the heat treatment of tool steels the purpose of this discussion is to review the basic heat treating process it s steps and terms and perhaps offer some helpful hints along the way.

I don t think you will find a better value for the money out there. All basic heat treating processes involve the. There is a wealth of information on the web from knife hobbyist on building diy ovens. I thought about building a high temperature oven or heat treat furnace for sometime and decided to finally do it.

Plans for building your own heat treating oven. Heat treating forum on knifedogs. I built a tall oven to heat treat 30 shafts about 10 years ago and even then it was a few hundred dollars for the brick. I ve had and used an evenheat oven for years and so i approached them about becoming a dealer.

A major goal of this book is to provide the necessary background which will permit a practicing metal worker to understand how to use the information in the asm book as well as other handbooks. Whereas i see used kilns going for 100 300 all the time. Oct 31 2010 1 plans for building your own heat treating oven.