Time To Buy A HT Oven

Fox I got the Set Pro. Fortunately I'm a patient, dedicated, exacting, omniscient control programmer. So I got it whipped.

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fitzo said:
Odd how that double-charged shipping happens!! Same with me. :grumpy:

I wish I'd known Tim was selling them when I bought mine several years ago..... he was my teacher when I learned to forge and make damascus many moons ago.

I'm glad Tim got them to offer the Rampmaster. I got a flat "NO!" when I spoke to them; but, then, I'm not a distributor. :) Personally, I detest that Setpro. I am more inclined to just crank the dial on my Paragon unless I need a programmed schedule, then I cuss as I scroll through the sequence. In all fairness, though, it's not that it's that terrible, I'm just spoiled from years of much more controllable lab equipment and being able to access anywhere in a sequence directly. Does the Rampmaster allow that?? Meaning, can you go directly to, say, "step 4 hold time" with just a couple keystrokes?

I'm wondering if I can retrofit mine??? Hmmmmm.

Thanks for making me think. ;)
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mike once you program it, each program would be named 1 2 3 ect
then you just push
program 1 2 or 3 and so on and then push start
and you can review any program when you want
being thick headed it took a little time to program but it's great now.... :D
 
It's certainly not as bad as I complain about it. I'm just still pissy Evenheat wouldn't put a Rampmaster on one for me. :rolleyes:

What I really want is computewr control with realtime readout on a graph, like back in the lab days. Of course, I'd like that for only $100 more!! :D

And I agree, if you do the same steels repeatedly the several (4?) programs it allows makes it easy.

It's a fine furnace, just me whining. The old brainbox is just starved for more oxy than usual even, with this %$#@%* cold. ;) I'll be quiet, now.
 
This is a case where ignorance is bliss; I'm not going to know any better so the Set Pro is going to be like Heaven on Earth for me... :D I can't remember whether it stores four or eight sequences but either way it'll probably be enough for this stodgy, unadventurous soul. ;)
 
Well I got this bad boy into my shop yesterday. I've had a rather difficult time finding an outlet to match the plug and if I don't succeed tomorrow evening I'm just going to switch out the one that's on the unit now.

But to find room for it in my shop I had to retire my little 7 X 10 lathe. Maybe I can find some place to set it up again eventually, but all it's been doing lately is collecting dust anyway.

It also occurred to me that since I'm going to have so much control in this process now, I should probably switch to actual quenching oil rather than the cheapo grocery store vegetable oil I've been using. So tomorrow I'm going to order a few gallons of Brownell's Tough Quench - unless someone has a better idea and a source for it?

Wish me luck, I'm seriously psyched... :D
 
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