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blackvalkyrie
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« on: July 16, 2014, 03:25:57 PM »
my heat shield on the right side of my 97 standard is light blue at the tip and the rest of it is starting to brown...any one know why? ???
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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 04:35:49 PM »
Just guessing, but when tempering steel you get a rainbow of colors from different temperatures of the steel a wheat color as what you want for a knife edge. So what I'm thinking is that your shields are hitting different temps in different areas.
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