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This is a discussion on Joinery within the Shop tips and tricks forums, part of the General Discussions category; Another possibility: if you are heating the tennon to red and leaving the shaft "cold" you might get mass quenching ...
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03-17-2006, 02:37 PM
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Another possibility: if you are heating the tennon to red and leaving the shaft "cold" you might get mass quenching and if using A36 there can be enough carbon in it to get brittle when quenched. Heating back into the main stock will help prevent this. Thomas
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03-17-2006, 07:15 PM
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Ed, Actually, all the breakage came from the same lot of steel. I bought a bundle of 3/4" and all the work was out of the same batch so there may be some validity to that explanation...H |
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