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Hardening Mild Steel - Anyone know any tricks
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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 1626312" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>Well you could carburize it. This puts carbon into the surface for a shallow depth and it can be made very hard. It's also known as case hardening. But seeing that your sanding belts use aluminum oxide abrasive it still won't work. Diamond has a moh's hardnes of 10.0, alox is 9.0. No steel is going to hold up, you just aren't going to get the steel as hard as the abrasive no matter how you heat treat it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 1626312, member: 3099"] Well you could carburize it. This puts carbon into the surface for a shallow depth and it can be made very hard. It's also known as case hardening. But seeing that your sanding belts use aluminum oxide abrasive it still won't work. Diamond has a moh's hardnes of 10.0, alox is 9.0. No steel is going to hold up, you just aren't going to get the steel as hard as the abrasive no matter how you heat treat it. [/QUOTE]
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