Heat-treating 13c26?

[Burchtree]

Is there any good info out there on this? Anyone have good recipes? I checked out the Sandvik guide and it it just said to bring to temp, then quench. Should it be oil-quenched, or can it be plate quenched?

 

[mete]

13C26 -- 1925, 15 min, Plate quench [ or oil, or air ] . Cryo if you like .Temper ~ 400 F.

 

[knarfeng]

Did you look at this page?
http://www.smt.sandvik.com/hardeningguide

I put in that it was a batch furnace and that the alloy was 13C26. It won't let me copy and paste and it does not have its own page to reference. You should be able to enter the same data.

But it said to quench as fast as possible. It said it should reach 1110F in 2 min or less. Has a nice temp profile chart as well.

Bladeforum memeber Razorsharp244 works for Sandvik. Perhaps you could shoot him an email if you need more info.

Hope that helps.

edited to add:
Ach! took too long looking up info. Mete answered in the meantime. Nevermind.

 

[SteelSlaver]

I would bet that a set of 12x12 x 1/2" aluminum plates would get a blade down under 1100 in less than 2 minutes. I did my D2 that way (I also had a small fan blowing on the plates). You could pick them up bare handed in a very short time. The plates really suck the heat out. I confess that I did some 19c27 previously and I used oil to quench, I dunked them in transmission fluid right from the oven, still in the stainless steel foil envelopes. They came out fine and hold a great edge. It has the same instructions as 13c26 at Sandvic (19c27 does call for 20f higher temp prior to quench) but the rest is identical.

 

[Burchtree]

Thanks! I had checked that site, but it seemed pretty vague.

It seemed to work out pretty good -- I went ahead with an oil quench as I wasn't sure if the plates would get them down fast enough.