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Oil quenching (i.imgur.com)
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Watching heavy machinery never gets old.

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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

So the slower the cooling, the less stress damags, but I’m sure there’s a curve where something like air cooling would damage it in a different way? I wonder what the best rate of cooling and medium is to facilitate it.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

I think air cooling would give the material time to anneal and become softer as a result.

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