I seem to remember reading in an old blacksmith text of an "uneducated" smith who was snookered into to buying Hydrated Sodium Chloride from the local pharmacist to use as a quench. It was $.10 a gallon. The man swore by it as the best ever. Seems cheap enough now.
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"He was the kind of a guy that could screw up an anvil with a tack hammer"
Last edited by habu68; 01-28-2008 at 04:33 PM.
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