Some real HOT pics here!

[Red River Rick]

I'm doing some heat treating.........thought some folks would like to see what a piece of A2 Tool Steel looks like at 1800 F.

RRR

With the lights off....
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/RedRiverRick/RCBS006.jpg (http://s40.photobucket.com/user/RedRiverRick/media/RCBS006.jpg.html)

With the lights on....
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/RedRiverRick/RCBS005x.jpg (http://s40.photobucket.com/user/RedRiverRick/media/RCBS005x.jpg.html)

[dbosman]

Pretty.
I worked summers in a "steel" mill. The part I worked in made iron. Seeing fresh molten iron being poured into bottle cars for the trip to the steel area was a frequent treat.

[ACrowe25]

Beautiful!

[Bullshop Junior]

That's hot all right.

[Walter Laich]

if you don't mind me asking what's it going to be?

[Red River Rick]

Walter:

It's the top punch for a large forming die. The bottom die (not shown) is the inverse of what you see, minus 0.125" (the thickness of the material being formed).

When finished the Top & Bottom dies will be mounted in a 500 ton Brake Press................

RRR

[btroj]

Can you make my wife look that hot?

[M-Tecs]

I don’t know how large your oven is but I have one that’s 6 feet deep. Anytime I take it up to 1,800+ I can’t help myself - I have to make a paper airplane and see if a can fly it to the back of the oven. I don’t do much heat treating anymore. I miss it.

[MBTcustom]

I ran the heat treat ovens at my last job for 3 years. 5 ovens constantly being rotated, and I was doing a lot of H13 tool steel which treats at 1875F. Let me tell ya, that's what hell looks like. Any closer than 2 feet, and the hair on my arms would curl up.

[Doc Highwall]

My wife is HOT! and don't mean hot flashes, I mean POWER SURGES!!!

[Lee]

Used to work for GE. Making tungsten parts for "stuff" 1800+C. (Thats around 3300F) Now that's hot. Pretty near white hot, lights on or lights off Joke used to be that "somebody" was so fast they could run thru the oven in a paper suit. (Oven was 50-60 feet long.) Parts had to soak a while. The outside would be up to temp, the innards still very cool, would bust up the forge if you didn't let the whole durn thing get hot.
Anyways the comment about paper airplane brought back the memories, and a smile. Thanks..............

[Bren R.]

Good time of year to be doing it as well... I'll have to come by again (now that the snow is melting and I actually feel like leaving the house) and we can stand around the heat treating furnace!

And don't try to pick that die up with oven mitts. :lol:

Bren R...

[jmorris]

Took this one yesterday growing a silicon ingot, somewhere north of 2500 F.

[Milsurp Junkie]

Zone refining of silicon, very cool. Moving the melting zone up and down the ingot, causes the impurities to melt and travel along with the induction heater.
Small ingot so that means a research lab. What is the inert gas in the quartz tube? I would suspect argon, but maybe helium. What is the cycle time top to bottom, and the total number of cycles needed? Most of them go from 99.9% purity to 99.9999999% purity.