Why do people never point that out to me?I can't evolve forwards if everyone is like "I'm to polite to say anything about his foul spelling"
Quote from: Mechanickal on February 08, 2018, 08:31:05 PMWhy do people never point that out to me?I can't evolve forwards if everyone is like "I'm to polite to say anything about his foul spelling" I would have said something but I didn’t notice.
Quote from: Mechanickal on February 08, 2018, 08:31:05 PMWhy do people never point that out to me?I can't evolve forwards if everyone is like "I'm to polite to say anything about his foul spelling" I'm not too polite to tell you it's "too polite" instead of "to polite" But quite interesting indeed, three Belgians in here! I'm sure there are a lot! I myself am responsible for infecting seven other people I can think of off the top of my head. They have all bought Leathermans On topic:I'm wildcamping this weekend (wildcamping is actually the purpose of this mod) so I won't be able to try to bend the canopener until next week.I've found a jewellers oven (more than 1000°C) I can use for the tempering, and perhaps the hardening too.Anyone with experience on bending, annealing, hardening or tempering 420 stainless steel please chime in.
Rebelgium, I got some spare can openers from LMs. I can give you one for testing. PM me an address. All I ask is for you to post some pics here of a red-hot LM can opener blade! (As long as it's safe to take pics while heating it up!)
@Zoidberg wicked! Thanks for the experiments, very interesting!So let me recap to see if I got this correctly:Cold bending with hammer snapped the canopener at 5mm deflection.So you turned to hot bending:- heat to cherry red- let cool down slowly by air (=annealing)- once it cooled down: bend with hammer- heat up again to cherry red- dunk in water (=hardening)- no tempering- sharpen- annihilate canIs this all correct?
Remarks?
Any idea of temperatures?
Do you think the hardening without tempering has left it too brittle for hard use?
Would hardening in oil leave it less brittle ?