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HARDENING STEEL
in the home workshop
By Albert A. Brandt
OW many times have you wished that No special equipment of any kind other
H you could put a tough edge on an
ordinary nail and drive it through a piece
than a gas ring or Bunsen burner is re-
quired.
of—say, 1/8-in. steel plate? To harden iron and low-carbon steel
Now, using a non-poisonous alloy powder with the Necamp powder, you first heat
developed by Samuel D. Necamp, known the object to a cherry-red color (be-
as Hi-Speed-It you can do just that. The tween 1,400 and l,700°F). To ensure
powder fuses into the metal and increases even heating, it should be turned or rotated
its surface hardness in a matter of seconds. while heating. [Continued on page 158]