PM2 blade fix?

[Knibes]

Would it be a good idea to heat the blade up in an oven before bending? I bet so.

 

[bearfacedkiller]

The amount of heat it would take to make the blade soft enough to bend easier would ruin the temper. Not a good idea in my opinion.

 

[yablanowitz]

You could certainly be right. Then again why the blade did not break but rather bent in the first place？Or maybe the OP heated the blade before bending it?

Have you ever heard the terms "work hardening" or "plastic deformation"? Look them up. When the blade was bent cold, that is plastic deformation and will cause some amount of work hardening. The steel is already very hard, and that extra work hardening may be enough to cause it to fail rather than bending back. Been there, done that.

 

[bearfacedkiller]

I dropped an S30V Para2 tip first on concrete and it bent about 1/16 of an inch of the tip. Pretty much just the sharpened bevel at the tip. I tried pressing it against a hard surface to straighten it out and “snap” it was gone. Easy fix sharpening it out though.

It is true, a blade can easily bend one way and then snap when bending it the other because of work hardening. You won’t know unless you try. I successfully straightened a bent Schempp Rock but it was only bent a couple of degrees. I batonned it into a tree stump and just tugged on it until it seemed straight. It took pretty much all my strength since it was bent near the handle.