Hello Fazer,

Brownells sell furnaces, and the necessary crucibles, bone and wood charcoal. They have a downloadable 'guide' as to 'how to do it'. 

However, they show no pictures of the end results they have obtained and they don't offer any guarantees on you getting results, or even they got any.  I'd be very wary of going to the temperatures recommended by Brownells they seem a tad too high for my liking.

There is a very good CC Hardening thread (22+pages) in the Marlin Collectors Website, gunsmithing section, complete with photographs of results. This really is an excellent thread and very well worth reading. See:-

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It's not cheap setting up to do CC Hardening and you will need other items of equipment than than the basic furnace, crucibles and charcoals. 

Be very aware that only a few steels can be CC Hardened, try it with the wrong steels and you have a potential grenade looking to shatter when you touch off a round.

You would need to do a lot of experimenting with various techniques, different charcoal ratio's, different temperatures, soaking times and quench temperatures before you risk working on an action that may cost $1,000,00 or more.

Harry

I think Fazer is in Australia. Is there any place to get those supplies down there?

Australia is a large cane sugar producer, so bone-charcoal should be available regionally. It is used as a filtering media during sugar refining.

Thanks for all the help. That was quite an imformitive thread Harry. 

Yes I am in Oz, how you doing Joel. But, I know a car shipper who has containers leaving from Calf on a regular schedual. So I could load up a pallet and put it in the conatainer, if nothing surfaces here. I won't be rushing into anything as this is a hobby type thing. 

Cheers.....Chip

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