My ethos for all my projects is in the spirit of doing it as cost effective as possible, and in a primitive way as much as possible, for example I use a hairdryer rather than using my traditional bellows sometimes in order to save breaking a sweat when increasing the furnace temperature, its down to instinct, intution coupled with knowledge and experience in order to achieve the desired result. As for using a 30 kilowatt heat blast which is electrically generated, that is not in the spirit of doing it in a bushcrafty way for me, but perhaps not everybody feels that way. Quenching in glucose is new on me I will have do some research on that, I have heard of brine mixtures, and soap, oil etc for quenching. But regardless of this all quenching at the final tempering stage usually takes the time of 2 to 12 seconds for any temperature between 80F and 180 F the main consideration is the duration of the vapour film in conjunctiom with the bath temperature when measuring these factors, but I will check out the glucose as for the HRC measurement terribly sorry all I know is that 450 F achieves a pretty close 56/58 Rc if you can maintain this temperature at a constant the only method of measurement I use is the time factor which can vary from what I have found between 20 mins to 1 hour approx, but unfortunately that is as far as my expertees goes in any academic way.
