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Heat treating oven question!
Stringman:
I guess a guy could dig a pit and fill the bottom with hedge coals and then put a layer of sand with rocks mixed in then a lot more coals on top?!? Is this gonna get hot enough for long enough? What will happen if it doesn't? Never done it before, but wanting to try.
d:^)
Scott
cowboy:
Scott: Go to the howto's section and drill down to page 5. I posted direction's for heat treating rock (the old fashion way) the way I do it - and it works great btw :).
D. Tiller:
Think this will get hot enough to heat treat agate?
mullet:
I tried all that "soak" time stuff with the toaster oven. I never noticed a difference. Now, all I do is put the spalls in the little tray and lay the other tray on top and crank that baby to 450,500 dgs and let it go all night. I unplug it when I go to work in the morning and take the rock out when I get home in the PM. Usually it is still warm. I've been using those little flea market, Salvation Army, $5 Black and Decker ovens for about 12 years. I wouldn't wrap them, I've seen mine gloe red at nite. I don't know why the plastic knobs don't melt.
cowboy:
Hmm, dunno D. Agate that I've seen is pretty slick already - may get too hot.
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