Thread: A Sad Tale...

Wouldn't you think a prolonged soak in low heat, if anything, would promote a more complete tempering, and more toughness, and (what seems like a foreign possibility to me) less hardness if anything?

I'm thinking that we are dealing with a plain carbon steel or something very close to it here, else the erosion probably wouldn't have been there.

Originally Posted by DaveW

Wouldn't you think a prolonged soak in low heat, if anything, would promote a more complete tempering, and more toughness, and (what seems like a foreign possibility to me) less hardness if anything?

I'm thinking that we are dealing with a plain carbon steel or something very close to it here, else the erosion probably wouldn't have been there.

Yes, it would convert more of the transition metal to normal (sorry I don't recall the proper martinsite and austonsite names). This would release some of the stresses in some areas and create more in others and on a metal as thin as the razor, cause fracturing. That is why all heat treating is finished before final machining. Heat treating and them tempering causes the metal to move. I did say alter the temper and stresses in my post above, didn't I?

I would say that after all that poor razor was put through and shaved with 4 times...no warranty whatsoever...but thats just me.
I would never dream of going back to someone and asking for a refund after doing any of that...but again, that's just me. If you're going to go all "cowboy" and attempt things you're not qualified to do then you should just suck it up and admit to your failure, learn from it and move on, not blame a qualified vendor