Heat treating salts

[Teknition]

Does anyone know of a supplier for high and low temperature heat treating salts that will sell small quantities?

 

[JCaswell]

I use Heat Bath Corp.

Small quantities?

It's been a while since I made a purchase. (maybe a year.) If I remember correctly, there was a 100-pound minimum (that's two 50-pound bags) of each material (Nu-Sal is for high-temp, Thermoquench for "low" temp). It sounds like a lot of material, but the stuff is pretty heavy.

I didn't think it was too expensive, don't remember exactly, I'm thinking it was something like $100 or $150 for everything, but I don't remember--I wasn't shocked by the price or anything.

It's good to have some extra lying around because it is a consumable. Drag-out alone adds up, then there's skimming, not to mention you've got to fill the tube to begin with, and the stuff kind of "cooks down" as is goes molten.

Try Heat Bath and get a quote. Good luck!

 

[Kevin R. Cashen]

I use Heatbath as well, and will continue to use them, but until they realize that the little guys money is worth something too I am recommending Houghton to folks who have been turned away:

http://www.houghtonintl.com/content/view/118/911/

It has probably been some time since Heatbath sold salt in bags, I have never got it in less than 400 lb drums.

 

[burke531]

Jef carlisle and Kelly Cupples both have small quantities of high temp salt for low temp most of the guys I know are using nitre salt from brownells.

 

[Teknition]

Thanks for the information guys :thumbup: