Chainsaw Repair

From what little I know they say plain water boils instaintly off to steam which creates bubbles around the steel and usually isn't a good quench method .They say the old time blacksmiths used salt water .

Oil is kind of scarey the first time you do it .The fire flies but doesn't really do anything except sound like fish dumped into a deep fryer .Doesn't smell like fish though ,burnt oil .

It's a bit of a side track from using a roller bearing for a punch .However there must be a zillion web sites that cover metalurgy of a sorts .Probabaley "anvil fire " is one of the better on the subject .

I could ramble on for hours about methods and old timey blacksmith tricks of the trade you won't find written any where but has just been passed on by word of mouth from people who where born prior to 1900 .Long gone now but never forgotten .

My dad was a wizard at this stuff ,as was his father ,his fathers father etc .I mean with a name like Smith it goes way back .