Heat Treatment

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The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalize work-hardened metals, and even to create decorative finishes. Heat Treatment is a practical guide to this valuable range of workshop techniques and how to employ them safely and effectively. Featuring step-by-step photography throughout, this book covers metals and their properties; building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop; case hardening, flame hardening and tempering and finally, decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling.|Metals and their propertiesBuilding a heat treatment oven for the home workshopCase hardening, flame hardening and temperingAnnealing and normalizing techniquesDecorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling