hello everyone im realitvly new at blacksmithing i have been fasinated by it for years but i dont know much about it.therein lies the problem.i would appreiate any tips on mixing a brine quench. info would be appereiated greatly thanx
matt

Those may be separate comments.
Need help mixing brine (quench) AND need help mixing fuel?

This post was broken into 3 separate posts, introduction, brine quench, and solid fuel forges. This is one reason we ask folks to post one subject per post so we know which question to answer.

Do a search on IForgeIron for brine quench, Rob Gunther, etc. Rob has a formula posted several places on the site mixing water, salt and a couple other ingredients to make his famous bring quench.

For the traditional brine quench you were supposed to mix salt in the water till it would float an egg.

Rule of thumb for me has always been 1 pound of salt per 1 gallon of water. Never seen any "super quench" that gave better results than this except for lye solution.

thanx for the advice guys i apperiate it.

Here is a link to the Rob Gunther quench:
-- Robb Gunter Super-quench

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Frosty

well, lets see...H2O weights 8.33# per gallon, and saturated brine weights in at 14 #/gallon. so you can add about 5.5 #/gallon of salt..as a reffrence..sea water is about 9.4 ppg.and warmer the water the easier it absorbes the salt. and you may want to mix it up some if it sets for a while, hope this helps, jimmy

10% salt solution, 1 part salt, 10 parts water.

old soap making recipe for getting the lye strong enough when using a lye runner to make lye from wood ashes, was boil the solution till an egg floats. boiling evaporates the water.