Re: Tool Making / Welding

["Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>]

Goofy question for the List:

Does anyone have any idea what temperature a self cleaning electric oven
gets up to on the self cleaning cycle?

Bryan



Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> 
> Let it air cool slowly. The slower the better if your wife will let you 
>preheat
> the oven to 500 and you put it in there after welding all the better. You have
> no idea what the metals are and even less equiptment to properly heat treat
> them. Any of the tool steels or even mild steels are more than strong enough 
>to
> put in spark plugs no matter what the heat treat might be. Any of the other
> methods you have mentioned will probably do nothing but crack the weld or make
> the steel brittle.
> Dave Dahlgren
> 
> Dick J wrote:

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