Aluminum TIG question

[Ray C]

Jeff,

I was curious about this myself and found this link last night. http://www.keytometals.com/Article39.htm Seems to be very good information and comparison of artificial and natural age hardening. There are vast differences depending on the alloy but some are as short as 4 days.



Ray

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Also, you could build a low/medium temperature kiln. It's not very hard and if you use the same insulating material I used, you might be surprised at how little electricity it consumes. A controller circuit will cost less than 100 bucks. My high temperature kiln takes about 15 minutes to reach 800 degrees. At that point I could shut it off and it will be 700 degrees 3 hours later. It's when you push past 1400 degrees (which you wont need) that it takes a constant supply of current to keep it hot.

Toaster oven? Forget that.


Ray

Jeff,

I was curious about this myself and found this link last night. http://www.keytometals.com/Article39.htm Seems to be very good information and comparison of artificial and natural age hardening. There are vast differences depending on the alloy but some are as short as 4 days.



Ray

 

[churchjw]

Thanks Ray That page is not one I found and has some great info. I am out of room to build a large kiln but I may try a small one for small parts. This does keep me from going down the dead end of trying a toaster oven. :nuts::nuts: Which is probably nuts.