Cherry Red Hardening Compound
This Cherry Red case hardening product is the perfect hardening compound.
Just bring the product up to a cherry red color and put some on and its case hardened
Cherry Red instantly case hardens steel parts with no special heat-treating equipment required. Quickly and easily impart a hard case to steel tools, dies, gears, machined parts, metalworking parts, blades, and other wear parts.
*case hardening compound contains no cyanide & nbsp;
1 lb. jar
Cherry Red is a compound of dry, powdered materials used
to surface harden steels quickly and easily. It is non-fl ammable and
is a simple, east, & effective means of quick-hardening tools and
parts. Cherry Red is widely used in industry to case harden
mild, lower cost steels as well as tool steels and other modern steel
alloys.
The product is easy to use. Anyone (even without heat treating
experience) can get highly satisfactory results. The only equipment
needed is something to heat the work piece, such as a furnace,
forge, or torch. Cherry Red is fast acting, the case hardening
takes only minutes.
Cherry Red is used for case hardening dies, molds, jigs, and
fixtures. It is used to harden punches, gauges, broaches, draw bar
pins, brushings, wear-plates, thrust washers, and many tools and
parts. Users report 60 Rockwell C hardness from 1018/1020
steels. Keep Cherry Red at hand, in the shop, always ready
for use so no time is lost and work delays are avoided.
How To Use Cherry Red:
- Thoroughly heat the part to cherry
red in color. Be sure the part (or
section of the part to be hardened)
is completely heated for best
results. - Coat part in Cherry Red
compound. Cover all surfaces
to be hardened. Compound will
blister and harden. Reheat part to
cherry red color. - Quench in water, oil, or let cool
and brush off excess compound.
Cherry Red is water soluble
and excess can be removed with
water and a little brushing.
