"principles of heat treatment"

[GTH11]

Was out an about today, scored an awesome artco rotary, with foot pedal and some attachments for 50 bucks, and the guy threw in a tumbler/polisher for 5 more bucks at the local flea market. Feeling good i went to the used book store to check for machinist, or blacksmithing books, asked the clerk in which direction i should start looking an got busy checking titles, an low and behold i found a book with the title "principles of heat treatment" written by M A GROSSMAN, director of research, Carnegie illinois steel corp. this particular book was at the puget sound naval yard, awesome info inside, even though this book is 60+ years old, there seems to be a ton of relevant knowledge to be gained from it, espicially since it only cost me 2 bucks. Dont forget about your local flea markets for materials and books!! GHaile

 

[Mike Davis]

Nice score!

 

[james terrio]

Sounds like a heck of a day! I've been keeping my eyes peeled at flea markets, gun shows and second-hand stores for years looking for stuff like that and have mostly come home empty-handed. Even though the details of that book might not be specific to knives, I imagine it's well worth reading.

 

[GTH11]

Lots of relevant stuff in this book, nice section on 52100, with graphs and pics, showing different grain structure at different quench temps, great chapter on annealing, and tempering!! This book is written so a layman can have a good basic understanding of the principles involved, however this book offers some quenching mediums that would be highly debateable/arguable considering how far we have evolved in mettalurgy. GHaile

 

[Steve Randall]

That's a great find. I have that book and it has lots of good stuff or a little newer addition not sure if much is different . You never know what you can find a flea markets ....steve