For Mete or Kevin; Proper Use of The Term Soak -

[rlinger]

In using the term soak is it only applicable to defining the amount of time at austenitizing or can it also properly be used in describing other times at equalized temperature such as at preheat or even tempering? As an example: soak at preheat no greater than 15 minutes, or soak at tempering temperature for 2 hours. For all things other than austenizing I have in the past tried to use the term 'hold' instead of 'soak' because I did know any better.

Thank you.

Roger

 

[Laredo7mm]

Temperature soak is temp soak. When I used to durability testing we used to say soak at -40°F for two hours.....

So I don't think it has anything to do with specific temperatures or transformations, just let the object stay at temp long enough to garuntee that the entire object is at the soak temperature.

But Lets see what the experts have to say.

 

[mete]

According to the glossary at www.metal-mart.com soaking is -prolonged heating of metal at a selected temperature. In my experience I've done as you have ,'soak' is the holding at austenitizing temperature and 'hold' for other temperatures like tempering .I guess common usage vs technically correct usage.

 

[rlinger]

Mete, as you were in the industry I would prefer to use terminolgy usually used by those practicing experts. I will continue as I have before then and thank you for that information.

RL