Brian
According to www.howstuffworks.com it's 900 deg. F.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Cc: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; "autox list" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Tool Making / Welding
> Goofy question for the List:
>
> Does anyone have any idea what temperature a self cleaning electric oven
> gets up to on the self cleaning cycle?
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
> Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> >
> > Let it air cool slowly. The slower the better if your wife will let you
preheat
> > the oven to 500 and you put it in there after welding all the better.
You have
> > no idea what the metals are and even less equiptment to properly heat
treat
> > them. Any of the tool steels or even mild steels are more than strong
enough to
> > put in spark plugs no matter what the heat treat might be. Any of the
other
> > methods you have mentioned will probably do nothing but crack the weld
or make
> > the steel brittle.
> > Dave Dahlgren
> >
> > Dick J wrote:
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