Would you risk it? What would you do?
Newbomb, what is cryogenically? I don't mean to highjack the op thread but I've never heard of this process.
They supposedly discovered this technology during the Apollo Space Program.
The metals on the spacecraft came back from space better structurally than when they were new.
Evidently it’s from taking metal at earth’s ambient temperature that goes into space where I’m told it’s pretty cold. Then on reentry that same metal goes through a point where it gets very hot. Then it goes back to ambient temperature.
When they learned that they went to work trying to duplicate that process without going into space and the cryogenic process was developed.
I can’t remember if everything is dropped to minus 300 degrees but IIRC it’s at least that cold but it’s a process.
I know there is a set rate of cooling, then holding the parts at that temperature for some period of time and then the part is brought back to some temperature and again, IIRC the parts are then heated up at a set rate and then cooled off at a set rate.
It may not be that exact process for every different materiel but that’s a brief, rudimentary explanation of cryogenic treatment of parts.
And it’s not just for automotive stuff. Gun parts…about anything you can think of can be treated.