I'm one lazy mofo.
JohnnyB
JohnnyB
Heat Treating
Just heat treated my first piece of metal. It's a mandrel for expanding exhaust pipe for slip fits. Worked before but it was hard to push in and pull out because the pipe would grab hold of it pretty good, and it was starting to show some signs of wear.
Heat treated that baby and now a file slides on it like it's made of glass. It's 1" thick so I don't have to worry about it cracking...and it's not under any bending loads anyway.
Tried it on another mandrel...didn't work...then I noticed I didn't make the other mandrel out of "hardening" steel like the first one.
Just had to tell someone.
JohnnyB
Heat treated that baby and now a file slides on it like it's made of glass. It's 1" thick so I don't have to worry about it cracking...and it's not under any bending loads anyway.
Tried it on another mandrel...didn't work...then I noticed I didn't make the other mandrel out of "hardening" steel like the first one.
Just had to tell someone.
JohnnyB
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I hate it when the mandrel goes soft before the job is finished.
JohnnyB
JohnnyB
Craig...unfortunately rockers need to be hard in certain places and not so hard in others. Pads need a hard surface...like chrome...but the rest needs to be "tough" like the tappet end. If you hardened the whole pad end...it would probably snap off eventually.
I'm trying to come up with race bike uses...but for the most part it's for making tooling to make race bike parts. Would work for valves spring base washers, gears (after tempering), any part that could stand to be a bit brittle and was susceptable to wear. Valve stem ends for instance....just the very end though.
JohnnyB
I'm trying to come up with race bike uses...but for the most part it's for making tooling to make race bike parts. Would work for valves spring base washers, gears (after tempering), any part that could stand to be a bit brittle and was susceptable to wear. Valve stem ends for instance....just the very end though.
JohnnyB
Frank,
Real good point...I tend to do the same thing as far as putting a larger bearing area on the SA. Same deal..that slot makes me nervous. Course I usually make oversize aluminum spacers. Sometimes I'll put a hardened washer on the bearing side.
Yeah...wheel and bearing spacers would be a good use for hardened steel.
I could also go to a smaller chain size now, anneal the sprockets, do the machining, reharden it. Last time I tried to machine a hardened counter sprocket it didn't work out so good.
I also want to use a high temp oven to start melting some aluminum and casting some small one off pieces.
JohnnyB
Real good point...I tend to do the same thing as far as putting a larger bearing area on the SA. Same deal..that slot makes me nervous. Course I usually make oversize aluminum spacers. Sometimes I'll put a hardened washer on the bearing side.
Yeah...wheel and bearing spacers would be a good use for hardened steel.
I could also go to a smaller chain size now, anneal the sprockets, do the machining, reharden it. Last time I tried to machine a hardened counter sprocket it didn't work out so good.
I also want to use a high temp oven to start melting some aluminum and casting some small one off pieces.
JohnnyB
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