Quenching and Martempering book

[deloid]

I was thinking of getting an (expensive!) used copy of this ASM book. Is the material still up to date?

 

[deloid]

Let me try again.

The book in question is what...some 60 years old? Is the book still valuable for it's information or does the Machinery's Handbook's several pages of summary cover much of what is current?

 

[Russ Andrews]

I got mine from Powell's used books.....No ISBN #.
I don't recall the price, but wasn't expensive.
Powells.com..

 

[JCaswell]

IMO, the more important book (as a HT-related tool for the kind of stuff in knifemaking) is the ASM Atlas of Isothermal Transformation. It's got the IT (TTT) charts for hundreds of alloys along with some other useful info for each, such as chemistry, etc, arranged for easy reference.
If you don't know how to use these charts or need the basics on how to apply that info and do martempering, marquenching, isothermal quenching, or any of the other basic techniques, a handy primer is Metallurgy Fundamentals, Brandt, Goodheart-Wilcox.
These two will get you going.
I have probably 8 ft. of shelf full of ASM books. The atlas is by far the most useful to me. I would probably buy the book if the price was right. I would not pay dearly for that particular one.