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11-27-2008, 06:22 PM
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 absolutly confused
what quenchant is best for MC steel?
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11-27-2008, 08:50 PM
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MC? Medium Carbon? Up to .30% C you can use water, over .30% use oil. It also depends on the alloy content and the section size you are quenching.
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11-28-2008, 10:28 AM
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and what you hope to acomplish by quenching? are you trying to get it real hard ? why not use a higher carbon steel? or are you trying to get toughness out of it? superquench will give a bit more hardness but it is a caustic solution...
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