heat treating oil

[jim v s]

I want to know where to get heat treating oil.

[nett]

Industrial or food grade?

[UnicornForge]

Used peanut oil from restaurants works well. Smells pretty good too.

[Don A]

I use "store brand" vegetable oil.

Some use automatic transmission fluid.

Veg oil smells like a fish-fry. Tranny fluid smells like... well, a burnt transmission.

If your talking about blades, I always pre-heat the oil before quenching.

Don

[brucegodlesky]

vet grade mineral oil from Tractor Supply

[steve sells]

Mineral oil works IF you can afford it Ellis custom knife works wells high grade quench oils, among other things.

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[brucegodlesky]

Ya, it's pretty expensive, about $14 a gallon.

[Dave Budd]

Jim, where abouts in the world are you? Certainly here in teh UK it's not that easy to get hold of compared to the US (at least that's the impression I get). Before I found a supply of commercial HT oil I used peanut oil with very good results (though it depnds on the speed of quench that you are aftr )

[Gerald Boggs]

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Gerald Boggs

[cal-k]

Olive - smells like ollebolen MMMMMM MMMMMMM