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Cyrogenicaly frozen picks and tension wrenches

When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

Cyrogenicaly frozen picks and tension wrenches

Postby BazookaMedic » 27 Nov 2006 21:48

What would they be like. Cyrogenic freezing makes metal extremely uniform and strong. It would be expensive but its just another one of my strange ideas. Input? Suggestions?
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Postby Schuyler » 27 Nov 2006 21:49

Really?

Not brittle? How does the process work?
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Postby UWSDWF » 27 Nov 2006 21:50

i imagine it would make them very nasty to hold
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Postby BazookaMedic » 27 Nov 2006 21:56

Well over 24 hour they cool the metal to -300 degrees farenheight (Speling?). Then they heat the object over another twenty four hours to 150-300 degrees pending on the applicastion of the metal farenheight.
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Postby zeke79 » 27 Nov 2006 22:02

Thicker steel does not become brittle as many high power precision barrels are cyro treated. Who knows how a thin metal would react especially with the wide arrays of metals used to make picks. I am sure a high carbon content pick would react differently than a lower carbon content pick same with stainless.

It is basically done as a stress relieving process.
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Postby BazookaMedic » 27 Nov 2006 22:05

Zeke you shoot with the CMP by any chance?
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Postby zeke79 » 27 Nov 2006 22:09

No, I have never found a gun to be more or less accurate after treating. I honestly think the barrel is either a shooter or not personally.
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Postby zeke79 » 27 Nov 2006 22:13

Ah the Civilian Marksmanship Program... I was thinking there was a company who done Cyro called CMP. No, I do not. We tried to get a group together in this area to do so and I became a certified NRA instuctor for rifle and pistol but the group never came about.

I have shot long range rifle for quite some time but have not messed with that for a few years now too much. I mostly work up handloads for over privelidged people in this area who go on safaris and exotic hunts.
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Postby BazookaMedic » 27 Nov 2006 22:14

We had btter get back on subject, but what calibers do youre people prefer? I handload myself.
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Postby BazookaMedic » 27 Nov 2006 22:26

Back on subject here is some info on the cyro process.

http://www.300below.com/site/home.html
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Postby Romstar » 28 Nov 2006 1:51

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it won't do a thing for a tool of this size.

The characteristics of the metal, combined with the size of the tool would suggest that it wouldn't impart any extra flexibility or durability.

I can't try this out right now, as the physics lab is actually closed until after Christmas. Not to mention that I am not sure how my old professor would feel about this particular experiment. We'll see.

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Postby BazookaMedic » 28 Nov 2006 9:09

You can not just trhow the object in raw liquid nitrogen, as it wil create MORE stress in the metal. It has to bee cooled in a dry chaber of twenty four hours then reheated over another 24 hours for it to work. So thats one thing for you to rember Romstar.
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Postby Legion303 » 28 Nov 2006 9:32

I imagine it's just as useful as the cryo guitar strings you can buy: overpriced and under-performing.

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Postby BazookaMedic » 28 Nov 2006 19:25

I personally belive that guitar strings are ment to break over time. WHEN AND IF cyrogenic freezing gets cheap it might be something to look into.
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Postby Gordon Airporte » 28 Nov 2006 23:05

This isn't something I'd pay to have done for just a pick, but if I could slip a pick or two in with a knife or something else I was having treated...
Of course, if you're breaking picks all that often you're probably doing something wrong.
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