To Buy or not To Buy H.T. oven

Oniel that was me,,, LOL you were running the bid up on me... lol I will ask him to put another one on for me.. Congrats and good luck with it. Let me know how it works for yea..
 
I've had a Paragon for 15 years. I bought it from Ralph Freer and have been using it since. The last few years it has received a real workout, so I have to replace heating elements more often. I wouldn't be without it.

I also have a 44 liter dewar for doing cryo. I couldn't get real big blades in the 33 liter I had. It's a great combination.

Gene
 
I haven't even started making knives yet (my bench is almost done and then I can outfit it!), but I think it would be infinitely more rewarding to HT your own blades.. As I've read a few times in this post, having control from start to finish is such a great feeling.
 
sunshadow said:
I have been heat treating most of my blades in an old lab kiln since 1989 (I'm on my second Cornell surplus kiln now, this one has been refitted with a PID controller) I have always based my heat treats on the manufacturer's recommendations, and adjusted from there (usually lengthening my soak time, and adjusting my setponts to compensate for any inaccuracy in my controller) rather than following the latest advice from whomever the columnist of the month in the knife trade magazines, and have missed out on most of the typical problems that people seem to constantly ask about here. My blades consistently harden, my decarb layer is very thin because I close up the kiln nice and tight and put in a chunk of lump charcoal to absorb any free oxygen into carbon monoxide and dioxide (reducing atmosphere to inert atmosphere) having a kiln eliminates many variables from your process

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Dosen't that reducing atmosphere kill the oxide layer on your elements and require more element changes ?

Unless you're doing this inside a muffle ?

what is your element life ?
 
reevestx said:
Oniel that was me,,, LOL you were running the bid up on me... lol I will ask him to put another one on for me.. Congrats and good luck with it. Let me know how it works for yea..
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now that is funny, I was watching 2 people bumbing the bid , I waited until there was 59 secs. left before I entered the last bid . I was still shocked that I won , there was 26 secs. left .
 
The day I got my Paragon learning came much faster, I am now in absolute control of everything that goes into my blades. I can experiment and test while I can still remember what I was seeking to know. I would not be without it

Gene: Next time you have to replace the coils, take a vacuum cleaner and clean out the channels where the coils lay. You should find the coils will last as long as when the Paragon was new.
 
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