Shop tip RE: heat treating.

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My thanks to Yvsa,
I tried this tip he gave me in the thread:
Im Stumped.
The Borax trick worked
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Did the formula 1/3 borax (Laundry stuff) 2/3 water boil, dip, dry, heat treat.
Cleaned up lickety split!
I am using 5160 with an Olive oil quench. Before I really had to grind the crud off. This time using the Borax it came off with no effort at all.

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You bet i use the same method also and love it ...cheap,easy,and works real good!!

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i keep grinding and grinding and it is still too short!!
 
I missed the original tip. Would someone please post a link to it?



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Hoodoo

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GREAT!!!!
Glad it turned out well Bob!

The 20 Mule Team Borax is good for a multitude of things!!!!
I mix it 50/50 with Epsom Salt to make a curing agent for bird wings and tails and also to "salt" hides with. It keeps the odor down and "dries" things out quicker than any other method I have used.
Also great for curing deer legs in to make gun racks from. Bend the legs and tie them with some good twine and bury them in this mixture and in about 3-4 weeks, usually, you can do what you want with them, smetimes if it's really damp you might have to wait about 6-7 weeks.

Still have to give credit to Karl Schroen and his book. Karl comes fom an old line of Smiths and I assume learned this from his father and grandfather before him.

Hoodoo here is the link.
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http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum51/HTML/001688.html


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