{"id":1147,"date":"2020-12-03T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1147"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:16:52","slug":"conventional-hardening-quenching","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/solutions\/heat-treating-services\/processes\/conventional-heat-treatments\/conventional-hardening-quenching\/","title":{"rendered":"CONVENTIONAL HARDENING \/ QUENCHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardening\u00a0is one of the oldest metallurgical processes known to man, originally in the form of heating a sword in the fire and then throwing it into the lake to make it harder. The more modern approach is to heat components in an atmosphere furnace followed by quenching, generally in heated oil.<\/p>\n<p>The expression \u201cconventional hardening\u201d is used here to differentiate the process from vacuum hardening. It should also be noted that \u201chardening\u201d is usually referred to as \u201cquenching\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A more refined version of this process is\u00a0<a href=\"\/solutions\/vacuum-hardening\/\">Vacuum Hardening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BENEFITS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased strength<\/li>\n<li>Increased hardness<\/li>\n<li>Improved fatigue life<\/li>\n<li>Increased wear resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not sure which process or service is right for you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/contact\/\"><strong><u>Contact<\/u><\/strong><\/a> our global team of heat treat experts and let them guide you or<br \/>\nfill out the <a href=\"\/en\/heat-treating-services\/rfq-2\/\"><u><strong>contact form<\/strong><\/u><\/a> to put you in touch with one of our experts!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardening\u00a0is one of the oldest metallurgical processes known to man, originally in the form of heating a sword in the fire and then throwing it into the lake to make it harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"new_scheduled_revision":null,"save_as_revision":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrex.gxinteractive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}