1095 Quench Oil

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I'm struggling to find Parks 50 in a gallon. Any other recommendations on quality oil? Any of the BF listed suppliers have oil in stock? Thanks in advance.
 
It's worth it to just get a 5gal bucket of it.
 
Cool. I've been looking for a faster quench oil also and haven't found any parks 50, so I'm going to check out Brownells.
 
I've been using canola oil, but I hear that something like Parks does a much better job. Thanks for the tip on Brownells.
 
Parks is not hard to find. It's available from Maxim Oil and Chemical. It's about $100 for a five gallon pail.
 
Great Price and Customer service so far at Maxim. I wasn't planning on ordering 5 gallons but the price was right.
 
For the shallow hardening steels ( W1/2, 1095, Hitachi white) you need sufficient volume and well as a fast quenchant. 3 gallons is the minimum for most blades in these steels. Circulating the oil during quench is also very advantageous.

Buy a five gallon pail of Parks #50, and make a five gallon quench tank with 4" to 6" clearance above the oil surface - you will never regret it. Make a good lid for the tank, too. This extends the oil life as well as keeps crud and critters out.

A nearly perfect quench tank is a 30" section of 8" pipe. Weld it to a 12" steel disc base, and weld a handle on a 10" disc for a lid. Filled with 5 gallons of oil, the column comes up about 24". A tank this size will quench any blade up to 20" long, and will do multiple blades without overheating. The boil-over you often see on the forging TV shows will not happen either.
For swords, a 42" section od 6" pipe will hold five gallons of oil and do a 36" sword.

You can build a simple re-circulation pump that has a "J" shaped section of 1" copper pipe set down the side with the tip of the "J" pointed up in the center of the tank bottom. Draw the oil intake to the pump from the top of the quench tank and have it exit through the "J" in the bottom. This creates a rapid up-flow of oil to speed the quench. This speeds the quenchant almost 2 seconds in quench speed.
 
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Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
For the shallow hardening steels ( W1/2, 1095, Hitachi white) you need sufficient volume and well as a fast quenchant. 3 gallons is the minimum for most blades in these steels. Circulating the oil during quench is also very advantageous.

Buy a five gallon pail of Parks #50, and make a five gallon quench tank with 4" to 6" clearance above the oil surface - you will never regret it. Make a good lid for the tank, too. This extends the oil life as well as keeps crud and critters out.

A nearly perfect quench tank is a 30" section of 8" pipe. Weld it to a 12" steel disc base, and weld a handle on a 10" disc for a lid. Filled with 5 gallons of oil, the column comes up about 24". A tank this size will quench any blade up to 20" long, and will do multiple blades without overheating. The boil-over you often see on the forging TV shows will not happen either.
For swords, a 42" section od 6" pipe will hold five gallons of oil and do a 36" sword.

You can build a simple re-circulation pump that has a "J" shaped section of 1" copper pipe set down the side with the tip of the "J" pointed up in the center of the tank bottom. Draw the oil intake to the pump from the top of the quench tank and have it exit through the "J" in the bottom. This creates a rapid up-flow of oil to speed the quench. This speeds the quenchant almost 2 seconds in quench speed.
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Good stuff. Thanks
 
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