Source: Flame Treating Systems
Since a blog is usually some way for the author to try and educate readers about some topic, let’s start the New Year with busting some widely held misconceptions about heat treating in general, and flame hardening in particular.
Very often larger companies have inhouse staff engineers responsible for figuring out the machinery needed to process parts throughout the production line. These P.E.’s usually have good mechanical and spatial skills, but invariably lack the specialized knowledge of heat treating. We have heard more than once, after being called in to redesign a process that couldn’t be salvaged, the engineers didn’t think the heat treating process was that complicated. “You’re just throwing some heat at it,” we’ve heard again and again.
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