I'm Confused; Heat Treat vs. Hardening

[redsquid2]

I recently sent an email to BOS Services Here is the full text of my email:

Can you harden 154CM/CPM154 to 62+ RC?

Thank you.

Andy


Here is their reply:

No, we dont do any hardening.

Brian J Zayicek
BOS Services
4741 E.355th Street
Willoughby, Ohio 44094
Work: 440.946.5101
Fax: 440.946.5103
Cell: 216.296.2903
www.bosservicesheattreating.com

I am confused. I thought hardening was part of heat treating. I don't want to bother BOS with any more questions, because I am just a hobbyist.

Is hardening part of heat treating, or is it a separate thing?

Thanks.

 

[Don Hanson III]

Hardening is just one part of heat treating.

Ask them if they can 'heat treat' 154cm...

 

[Remyrw]

Are you sure you're not confusing them with Paul Bos Heat Treating? They still look like a heat treater but are not the same place most of us talk about when we say Bos heat treating.

 

[Poop Fungus]

maybe they are confusing/mixing up "temper" and "heat treat"..?

 

[redsquid2]

Aha! I was interacting with the wrong company. Bos Heat Treating is part of Buck, in Post Falls, Idaho.

BOS Systems, of Willoughby, Ohio, is something entirely different; looks like some kind of industrial service, not for cutlery. Let me see if I can delete my thread now.