Compensating for heat loss on the way to the quench

Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
The first question is "Why?", the second is - Have you considered what will happen when the hot plume of oil smoke hits the 1600F oven chamber???


The industrial HT ovens with the quench done in the chamber are usually very complex and the quench is under a vacuum atmosphere. Automation from oven to quench is NOT a home shop procedure.
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Yes this is why that idea was quickly dismissed :)
 
Just move the quench tank closer !!! ..I was born BC, before computers !! So I use simple logic , none of the very common computer modeling stuff.

Somewhere I have a photo I took of the construction of the Verazzano Bridge . One man heated the rivet ,picked it up with tongs , threw it to the riveter who caught it in a metal cone.Placed it in the hole and hit it with the rivet gun ! All before it got cold !!!
 
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As a little boy, my mother took me downtown to see the construction of out first skyscraper - 7 stories tall. The ironworkers were tossing hot rivets up to catchers while two guys set them with noisy pneumatic rivet guns. At first I thought they were throwing and catching them by hand. Mom told me they used metal cups.
 
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