What does cryo treatment do for knives?

What does cryo treatment do for knives?

Cryogenic treatment is a common process designed to enhance the performance of metal blades. Extreme deep freezing increases the service life of knives by improving their resistance to wear. As a one-time treatment, freezing knife blades makes them more durable and less prone to chipping and fracturing under stress.

What does cryo treatment do to steel?

Cryogenic hardening is able to make metal objects and workpieces more resistance to wear and tear. Metal doesn’t just become harder through cryogenic hardening; it becomes tougher and more resistant to wear. As a result, cryogenic hardening is performed to increase the usable life of metal objects and workpieces.

What is Cryo heat treatment?

Cryogenic processing is a special type of heat-treating process that involves cooling heat-treated steels and other metals to temperatures lower than -300°F. The deep chilling of heat-treated parts allows the metal molecules to be brought to “cryogenic stillness” to improve wear characteristics.

Can you quench a blade in liquid nitrogen?

Please do not perform a Cryogenic Quench by plunging a hot (austenising temperature) blade into a super chilled quench medium (Liquid nitrogen). The word “quench” as it relates to cryogenic treatments is misleading and should not be used.

What is SOG Cryo D2?

CRYO D2 STEEL BLADE A versatile high-carbon tool steel that is cryogenically heat-treated to SOG’s unique performance specifications. D2 provides the ideal combination of edge retention and durability for long term use with ease of maintenance.

What is ice hardened steel?

Ice Hardening is a process where steel is quenched in temperatures below sub zero that helps draw out the hardness of refined steel while infusing it with enough resiliency to perform consistently in the most exacting of conditions.

How do you cold harden steel?

Cold rolling is the most common method of work hardening. This involves the metal being passed through pairs of rollers to reduce its thickness or to make the thickness uniform. As it moves through the rollers and is compressed, the metal grains are deformed.

Can liquid nitrogen damage metal?

Yes. Cooling just about anything to liquid nitrogen temperatures makes it more brittle than at higher temperatures. At higher temperatures, defects in the crystal lattice of a material are more mobile. Bending a crystal will introduce slippage and cracking.

What is nitrogen quenching?

Nitrogen quenching is a type of inert gas quenching that uses a cost-effective medium that can be generated on-site. PSA and membrane nitrogen generators can be used for industrial nitrogen gas production, eliminating the need for the transportation and storage of compressed gas cylinders.

How can I buy liquid nitrogen?

There are many places where you can buy liquid nitrogen: laboratory supply stores, grocery stores (in the frozen food section) and online retailers like Amazon.com that sell it in 5-gallon containers.