10-25-2018, 11:09 AM
Well we got your email and then phone call TMan before we could respond to your post. We agreed, the temperature response time of Tempilaq while grinding edges is an unknown factor. We also agreed that the response time for Tempilaq could be described, at worst, as a very few seconds which led us to Geno's reference to Holloman-Jaffe and work done by the Germans regarding time, temperature and loss of hardness. All of this then leaves us still with two questions. (1) Is the grinding temperature much higher, albeit very briefly, than our Tempilaq test indicates?; and (2) If the temperature increase is greater than indicated by the Tempilaq is it sustained for a period of time long enough to soften the steel significantly?
We look forward to hearing from you once you have completed your experiments and thank you for your post.
We look forward to hearing from you once you have completed your experiments and thank you for your post.