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Great project! A heat treatment oven is useful for so many things. If you're building one of these, you might want to adjust the hinge so that when you open th
by jbay808 6y ago
Great project! A heat treatment oven is useful for so many things.
If you're building one of these, you might want to adjust the hinge so that when you open the oven doors, the hot side of the oven door always faces away from you. It will make it much more comfortable to use.
- raldi 6y agoWhat are some of the things they’re useful for?
- OJFord 6y agoHardening or softening metal (e.g. to make less easily marred tools, knives) is how I got there, not sure of non-metal-working uses. I suppose though if you can get it to hold cooler temps too, then it's just an oven, could use for reflowing solder, testing performance of something at higher temperatures, warming bagels..
- kawera 6y agoMaking pigments (aka cooking some rocks).
- jbay808 6y agoBasically, the capability to harden, temper, and anneal steel allows you to do a lot that you couldn't otherwise. It means you can take a single material and rotate it through any of soft and malleable, knife-hard and brittle, and strong and springy. For example, without a heat treatment oven, it would be very hard to make a new hard cutting tool. What would you cut it with? You basically have only the option of grinding it, which is very difficult especially because if you overheat it at any time you'll destroy the temper. But if you soften it, you can use other steel tools to sculpt it to any shape you like, and then you can harden it again! Now you can make bearings, hinges, chisels, files, sawblades, knives, wear surfaces, deadbolts, springs, needles, gears, and all sorts of other things that require a hard material in order to perform or last a long time.