Heat treating my first blade

[Ken S]

During my career as a telephone repair tech, I occasionally worked in a factory building formerly occupied by a company which manufactured large overhead cranes. The current tenant was a drop forging company. My trouble was located directly above a very large hammer forging machine. A piece of steel almost a foot square by several feet long was being hammered by a power hammer. The steel was orange hot. The heat had melted the telephone cable located directly above.

It was fascinating to watch. (I returned another day when the machine was not in use to complete the job....)

Ken