Get your kicks out of today’s edition of Heat Treat Humor, featuring jokes from Publisher Doug Glenn, Heat Treat Today editors, and contributions from around the industry.
If you have a heat treatment joke to share please forward it along for the humor enthusiasts here at Heat Treat Today by emailing editor@heattreattoday.com. It may just end up being featured!
1. Why did the steel need therapy after quenching? It had too much unresolved stress.
Which happens to any of us when we’re not treated right.
2. Why don’t metals gossip during annealing? They’re too busy relaxing.
Cue the shamisen music.
3. What did the furnace say to the cold titanium? You need to warm up to change.
The titanium felt it’d be hardened by the experience.
4. Why did the aluminum fail its heat treatment exam? It lost its temper under pressure.
Don’t be like aluminum.
5. What’s a heat treater’s favorite genre of music? Heavy metal.
And their favorite band? Metallica.
6. Heat treatment impacts almost every faucet of our lives.
It’s far reaching.
7. Why did Heat Treat Joe burn out in his job? He didn’t take enough time for stress-relief.
A mistake any of us can make.
8. Why did the metal fail its quenching process? Because it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
We and metal have that in common.
9. What kind of worship does a heat treater like? Metalliturgical.
Honey for lovers of the refiner’s fire.
10. Why did the knife adjust so easily to marriage? It had tempered expectations.
And that’s a wrap!
