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Any metallurgy gurus here? Curious about IRS aluminum arms..
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<blockquote data-quote="SlowSVT" data-source="post: 10553166" data-attributes="member: 20202"><p>T6: 985 degrees for 12 hours, quench in water, age on room temperature 2 hours, temper at 350 for 2 hours. T4 you skip the temper but will turn to T6 over time. That's the process if I remember correctly. I've seen some pretty spectacular events during the heat treat process. We use to heat treat distributer cap contacts which were small aluminum cups and would be poured into the retort. On out fist run we were clueless and stupid and didn't cap the retort prior to heat treat (all 1000 lbs of it). Using the overhead hoist we dropped the retort into the quenching tank and it looked like a volcano erupting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> showering us and the shop with hot metal parts and managed to empty the top basket :nonono: We were hopping around like Mexican jumping beans getting pelted with hot metal parts :lol1: Explosions.......you don't even wanna go there! ! If you have miss-behaved in life and want to know your fate go work at a heat treating company :fm:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlowSVT, post: 10553166, member: 20202"] T6: 985 degrees for 12 hours, quench in water, age on room temperature 2 hours, temper at 350 for 2 hours. T4 you skip the temper but will turn to T6 over time. That's the process if I remember correctly. I've seen some pretty spectacular events during the heat treat process. We use to heat treat distributer cap contacts which were small aluminum cups and would be poured into the retort. On out fist run we were clueless and stupid and didn't cap the retort prior to heat treat (all 1000 lbs of it). Using the overhead hoist we dropped the retort into the quenching tank and it looked like a volcano erupting :eek: showering us and the shop with hot metal parts and managed to empty the top basket :nonono: We were hopping around like Mexican jumping beans getting pelted with hot metal parts :lol1: Explosions.......you don't even wanna go there! ! If you have miss-behaved in life and want to know your fate go work at a heat treating company :fm: [/QUOTE]
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