Heat treating O-1?
Heat treating O-1?
(OP)
how can I heat treat O-1 toolsteel with out buying expensive equipment ovens etc.
Would I need a special quenching oil?
The parts that i need to heat treat are not that critical, but need hardening
Would I need a special quenching oil?
The parts that i need to heat treat are not that critical, but need hardening





RE: Heat treating O-1?
How do you plan to heat the part? You need to reach > 800 °C to austenitize the steel. Quenching oils are not that expensive, and you can use a simple steel bucket of sufficient size to drop the part into after heating.
RE: Heat treating O-1?
RE: Heat treating O-1?
While it would be (theoritically) possible to achieve results with a bellows-blown charcoal fire and a bucket of mineral oil, I wouldn't advise it. Commercial heat treating services exist to provide the service you need. If you don't know what you're doing, don't expect to get acceptable results.
People who know what they are doing go to a commercial heat treating shop.
rp
RE: Heat treating O-1?
Probably the quickest and cheapest way is checkout a few knife makers in your area and the chances are good that one will have th capabilities to do the heat treating. If you can find locally there are knife making magazines that have advertisements for one or two off heat treating jobs and most are quite reasonable.
RE: Heat treating O-1?
Of course this will not work as well as having it done professionally in an oven. Most heat treatment companies offer a collection and delivery service, check out your local area.
RE: Heat treating O-1?
Cashen is a fine blade maker and very knowledgable about metallurgy.As he says O-1 is not just a simple carbon steel. Note soak times ! He and I have been trying to educate knifemakers about metallurgy on forums such as www.bladeforums.com
I've repeated many times - the better you can control time and temperature the better the final product !