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I made a Heat Treat Furnace! (Patreon)

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2024-10-24 14:00:12
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2026-06
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Yup... this one's been a long time coming. But it finally happened. I made a heat treat furnace... and it's AWESOME. This project kicked my ass so give props to my wife for pulling this video right out of thin air. I couldn't do this without her!

P.S. I apologize for absence as of late, so hopefully a 34 minute video makes up for that :).

P.P.S. I'll add a list of parts of what I used once I'm able to get that all together.

Enjoy!

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Erik D. Radzius

Just when we needed him most - he’s back ❤️ can’t wait to finish work and watch it

Kyle Wellman

This is so awesome lol I made one for my shop too after watching This Old Tony's video about the hotshot oven. Combined with the video from Clickspring about how to add carbon to steel and heat treat low carbon steels, made it a lot easier to make quality tooling in my smaller shop where I don't have the equipment yet to really machine already hardened material. I have a CNMG tool holder I made for my lathe that's a copy cat of a Kennametal holder I got. Can't explain how awesome of a feeling it is to use plain hot rolled steel, go through the carburization process and feel the file skate across it. Really took my passion for the deeper understanding of metallurgy to a new level.

Kyle Wellman

Now i just need the economy to improve so I can save up enough to sit a surface grinder back in my shop. Those are my only two regrets. letting my 16x40 5hp ECOCA lathe go, and letting the old Brown and Sharpe surface grinder go. I just didn't have room for them when we were renting. Now that we have our own house though, I'm ready to get my shop dreams going. Got my certification for Python programming. Working on SQL. Want to do something with that as a remote job, and keep my controls engineering job and hopefully make enough to pay off our house in a couple years, expand the garage a bit, and get a proper shop built :]

Kyle Wellman

Wish I would have watched at least a couple mins before commenting, and im sorry for blowing your comments up already 😅 but I should mention too that I also built mine after watching the video from Red Beard Ops on how to make a heat treat oven. It's such a great video. OK this is the last one lol had to also show my support as it's only right and I should have after mentioning building it in my first comment

Manuel Preuner

I was feelin kinda down after school but this totally rescued my day, love the furnace, would have loved to see your wifes reaction to the beard

Bryce de Haan

I was wondering what you had cooking up, can’t wait to watch!

Brandon Glenn

What controller did you use? I need to build a simple Cerakote oven and that controller would be perfect!

Rvator

Yes. A great addition. How did your grandfather do heat treating?

Goose Gosselin

Turning into my favourite cooking show.

JM

This is one of your best builds. The door is very nicely designed. It would be very interesting, and I hope you will, send a CAD drawing for a quote to a few sheet metal fabricators. We had several custom steel enclosures made this way. I know you wanted to build your own but others might like to have someone else do the sheet metal work.

Max Goldstein

I was starting to wonder where you went and I’m glad that everything is well. That looks like quite the project! As a woodworker, I was a little bit shocked at how you used a router bit in a drill, but I think the more important concern is dust collection when milling those bricks.

hollo

Awesome. I made an aluminium melting oven for a foundryyears ago, using the same bricks (but 6 of them in a hexagon standing vertically), and a very similar element winding method. I wound onto a threaded rod which kept the coils nice and even, but it looked like your method worked fine. Looking at your enclosure is making me feel guilty about how unsafe mine is. I'm going to use this as inspiration to fix that. I'd also love to know what electronics kit you used. I don't use a dust protection mask for most stuff with hand tools, but definitely would for sanding those bricks. Then again I don't have a switch to cut off power when I open my furnace, and have to remember to do it manually. Funny how we all get stressed by different risks.

Erik D. Radzius

Alright, you building a heat treat oven was definitely not on my bingo list 😂 However, I'm definitely not disappointed. The thing is a work of art! Especially the door mechanism. Absolutely deserving of a chef's kiss. Very impressed. I can definitely see why this took as long as it did. I'm no stranger to scope creep, and this just takes the cake in that category. Can't wait to see you heat treat everything in a mile radius now 😁 And obviously, Paige's excitement for this thing is absolutely infectious. Any woman that can even show emotion for a such a tool is a keeper.

Matthew Vaerewyck

Ironically, it was last night that I was like "you know... IM hasn't put out a video..." And I went to look. Now, seeing this video I totally see what you were *cooking up*, what a treat! (ugh, I hate myself) and it was well worth the wait! Good job getting it done, I LOVE your wife in these videos because I do basically the same thing with mine for every project :D

Jeff Loffert

Outstanding work Brandon! Both technically and aesthetically. Makes me feel inadequate, having hit the easy button, and purchased a Hot Shot oven from Stan at Bar Z! 😁🍻

Matt Kosmoski

Awesome project! Which controller is that you used?

Michael Faragher

Ordering sheet steel, hammering and hand filing, pushing shears beyond their design limits, yelling at slip rolls, and swearing at steel that cracked on the last operation? Most relatable video ever. Well done!

Pierre Alie

Awesome as always, I was working when the notification came in could not wait all day to get home. Can’t wait to see what you get done with it!

Inheritance Machining
>>153255060

Amen! I'm really chomping at the bit to use it. Probably have to make a permanent home for it near the bench for how much I'll use it!

Inheritance Machining
>>153253575

Oh my personal health is usually the last thing I think of 🤣 I updated the video description with all the components I used so you have a look there. Nothing too crazy expensive actually and I really like the controller and am looking forward to the bluetooth programming capabilities.

Dave Cannon

That was amazing! I'd love more explanation, but that was so impressive. Also your wife is great. Kudos abound for this video!

James Riordan

Harbor Freight…just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water 😱

Jim Ruddy

Great project! Love the banter with your wife! Are you going to show us your rebuild of the acme screw you heat treated with the torch?

The Seb

Dude that was amazing and funny as well!!! Now you have a nice furnace to warm you during the winter as well!!!!

Aaron Wood

I think you demonstrated why machinists chamfer everything, instead of rounding over the edge. Looks like it was a lot of fun, frustrating but fun!

Michael P Andersen

This is an awesome project. BTW, with this design, it's not trivial to change out your fire bricks, which is totally fine, but I recommend you avoid using fluxes. I trashed my heat treat oven when I used borax and discovered that it dissolves fire bricks like water on cotton candy

Inheritance Machining
>>153325298

thanks! I considered more information but felt a bit risky presenting anything like I'm an expert (at least related to the electrical mumbo).

Inheritance Machining
>>153562013

oh wow... i never would have guessed that. I would hate to melt this thing to a puddle. I might have to do a bit more research before i get too experimental haha thanks!

Ethan

awesome video!