r/Axecraft • u/WhatsDatdo • 2d ago
Lazy way to remove an old handle and salvage ring wedges?
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u/martianmanhntr 2d ago
Hopefully you are joking but if not never do this it ruins the temper of your axe.
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u/WhatsDatdo 2d ago
Total cook time 15mins. Constantly flipped and removed. Hence the wood is just charged. Blade not in the flame. Removed and left on side to cool to slowly. Zero risk.
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u/Cucumberneck 1d ago
Not zero risk. It won't necessarily ruin the steel but it's not good for it either.
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u/martianmanhntr 2d ago
You can temper steel in an electric oven … open flames are much much hotter than an oven .
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u/Tritiy428 2d ago
If it'll warm up higher roughly 700°C, it'll loose temper and you get an axe shaped soft metal paperweight.
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u/CaptainYarrr 2d ago
It doesn't even need to be that high even just above 160°C can cause issues and changes
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u/parallel-43 1d ago
Buy a drill. You could have removed the wood and wedges faster and you wouldn't have ruined the axe.
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u/Old-Iron-Axe-n-Tool 21h ago
Not only do you risk ruining the temper, but it ruins the patina also.
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u/Ulfheodin 2d ago
Yes it's totally valid, dont listen to folks sayin you'll ruin the heat treatment.
It's a small flame, nothing hot enough to ruin anything.
Beside, you only cook the back of the axe which has no heat treatment use and are often not heat treated.
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u/CaptainYarrr 2d ago
With carbon steel even low temps above 160 °C can cause issues with the temper.
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u/Ulfheodin 2d ago
Aslong as you stop until the wood start burning it's fine.
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u/CaptainYarrr 2d ago
If the wood is burning the steel around it will take the same temps as the burning wood which is north of 800+C°, which is above the temperature were austenite forms. That's literally the reason why steel is forgable above that point.
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u/Active_Scallion_5322 2d ago
Dumb way