Do You Even Need it? Foil vs Coatings for Heat Treating Steel Media

Published: 2 months ago

I tested four different heat treat coatings and compared them to foil for protecting steel from scale and decarburization. And just what is decarb anyway?

Written version of this article: https://knifesteelnerds.com/2024/10/21/coatings-vs-foil-heat-treating-steel/

Intro 00:00
Scale vs Decarb 00:18
Issues from Decarb 01:48
Protecting Steel 03:25
Coatings 06:36
New Experiments 08:02
Uncoated 10:22
Coatings Effect on Quenching 11:25
NoScale2000 13:08
ATP-641 14:58
Turco 15:42
Condursal Z1100 16:57
Foil 17:59
Common Issues with Coatings 19:00
Scale-X 21:02
Summary 21:39
Thank You 23:37
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