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Porsche Crest Kasenit

Could one use Kasenit on, say, rocker arm wear faces? For that matter, on the cam lobes also? It apparently can case harden down to 0.020 or so if you keep at it. Heat area to be hardened red hot, put into the can of the stuff (a powder?) or pour it on, quench (or reheat and repeat).

Cam lobes? Would heating them red hot one at a time warp the cam?

I noticed it in an ENCO ad, but Google showed gunsmiths and some machinists discussing having used it effectively for surface hardening of small parts.

Walt Fricke
(thinking about all the rockers he has that have started to pit on the surface, and how if they are reground they might benefit from hardening that surface)
Old 12-11-2006, 07:57 PM
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