Heat Treatment

The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalize work-hardened metals, and even to create decorative finishes. Heat Treatment is a practical guide to this valuable range of workshop techniques and how to employ them safely and effectively. Featuring step-by-step photography throughout, this book covers metals and their properties; building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop; case hardening, flame hardening and tempering and finally, decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling.Metals and their properties Building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop Case hardening, flame hardening and tempering Annealing and normalizing techniques Decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling

Author: Richard Lofting
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Published: 07/18/2018
Series: Crowood Metalworking Guides
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781785004414