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Case Hardening Experiments Mod-Up
vtsteam:
Ahh, they were talking about pack hardening there.
The method previously mentioned for sugar was for a dip, heat, and plunge type and had its origins in a reference to "The Great Escape".
Dip types have the advantage for speed and convenience. And hoping to find a safe homebrew alternative to Kasenit (a dip type) was the reason I started the thread.
As I mentioned, not many have access to long period high temp ovens, and even a woodstove isn't used in summer, so pack hardening is not very useful for most small jobs the way a rapid process like Kasenit is. Or was.....
Lew_Merrick_PE:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on August 03, 2015, 09:34:29 AM ---The method previously mentioned for sugar was for a dip, heat, and plunge type and had its origins in a reference to "The Great Escape".
--- End quote ---
Jerry Sage who escaped from Stalag Luft III was a member of my father's parish in Everett (Washington) when I was a child. (1) The process described by Paul Brickhill was sufficient for the "soft" wire around many of the prison compounds, but not for the "hard" wire around cooler areas. (2) Molasses or brown sugar were the "preferred" materials (but harder to get than white sugar) in Stalag's. And (3) the person who started this "process" around the Stalag's had read about it in a WWI escaper story.
[And Steve McQueen did a horrible job of representing Jerry Sage and Al Hake in the movie! Mr. Sage (who took a bunch of us to see it when it first came out) walked out after less than a half-hour into the showing.]
awemawson:
There you are Steve - if not from the horses mouth at least from someone who mucked the horse out :lol:
vtsteam:
Folks, sugar in air didn't work here to produce any hardening effect whatsoever. I wasn't trying to prove or disprove historical events. If someone wants to try molasses or brown sugar on soft wire in a test, I'm all for it! And if it does harden to a useful degree that would be great. Likewise if you want to try it in a pack, please do!
This was an invitation for others to help work out a useful quick hardening method. Nobody joined in, and the results are what they are. Don't like 'em? Do it better and write it up here!
vtsteam:
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