The steel wool makes sense. I'll need to try that. The charcoal off gases CO and CO2 and provides the oxygen free environment. Make sure you have good ventilation and a CO monitor is cheap insurance as well. The last time I annealed something with the door closed in the shop the CO alarm went nuts.

interesting stuff on the Temp. as well. Most things I have read call for a quench around 1450 F, I enjoyed Craig's post on the CSM video(which I need to track down) and it seems both CSM and ken's info come in at 1333 or so. Where did you come across this number Ken ?

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