need two burner brick forge plans, or some plans

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armlessbandit

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hey i wana make a forge to heat treat blades and i need some plans, someone please post a link, i cant find any PLEASSSSE
 
Here ya go.

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Stacked brick forge Is what I did. Take a look at my post: Pictures of my Basement Shop. I used 2600 deg brick. It cuts easy with a hack saw or dry wall saw.

Hope this helps.
 
now when people say i can use a kitchen oven for only tempering,,,,,,,,,,, is this heat treating? like is temperiin and heat treating the sdame thing?
 
Hey, I like it when people post questions I know the answr to. ;)

Heat treating puts the hardness into the steel. Makes it hard enough to hold an edge, be a useful tool, etc. But it also makes the steel brittle. Tempering draws back the brittleness, to your chosen balance of hardness and tensile(flexing/stretching) strength.

I'm sure someone can give a better answer, but that's a start at least. :)
 
Hey, Armless,

HT is actually a multi-stage process...first you take the rough-finished blade and stick it in the forge. You take it up to "Critical Temperature"--essentially, when a magnet won't stick to it, anymore--then you dunk it in the quenchant of choice for that steel. Some steels take water, some oil. Some require the blood of a virgin, mixed with the tears of the Rock of Gibraltar...er...sorry. Got off-task. That will make the blade nice and hard. Too hard, in fact. Now you have to draw the temper back, so that it's strong enough to hold the edge, but not so brittle that the edge chips or the blade shatters. THIS is where the oven comes in. Depending on the steel, you'll put it in for a predetermined amount of time, at a certain temperature (note how I using vague terms to hide the fact that, although I have a firm grasp of the THEORY, I've never actually done this...). Then you turn the oven off and let it cool. Then you finish the blade.

Sometimes you may temper and harden several times, to get a desired effect. There's also all kinds of fancy stuff you can do with differential tempering and clay-coatings and such, but this is enough to get you asking the right questions to folks who know more than me, I hope.

Good luck!!

:D
 
I first started by looking in the Yellow Pages phone directory under refractories to locate the brick. I beleive what you need to look for is K23 brick. It is very light, almost like styrofoam. I purchased about 6 of them for $20. I then took a 3/8 drill and bit and started drilling out the brick from both of the ends. I then took an old wood rasp and hollowed out the chamber I wanted. My chamber measures about 1" X 2" through the entire brick.

I took two standard propane torches and put them side x side. I measured between center of burner to center of burner. This tells me how far my holes in the side has to be.

On one of the wide sides of the brick. I then drilled two holes in the brick into the chamber. Dont go clear through the brick. But just into the chamber.

I took some stiff wire and made a support that will hold the two burners side by side and elevated them horizontal so they would blow directly into the two holes I drilled in the brick. I had to set the brick on a couple of other bricks to get the right height.

The torch tips do not go in the brick. The tips are about 1/2" to 3/4" from the side of the brick but blow directly into the side of the brick.

Your all done, just light them and have fun.

I have a picture of the forge posted on this forum. I forgot the title but just look for Loosenock as posted by...it was about a month ago.

Good luck

Joe
 
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