Is there a way to make a homemade powder like kasenit to case harden low carbon steel?

My understanding is Kasenit's ingredients are - charcoal, molases, and sodium bicarbonate. (I have also read that it is sodium carbonate) I do not know the exact amounts of the ingredients although I have read the molases is what keeps the charcoal (carbon) on the part as it cools allowing the carbon to enter the metal matrix. It's not much but I hope it helps.Is there a way to make a homemade powder like kasenit to case harden low carbon steel?
Sure, and you can toss it into your blast furnace at your house and roll it out in your steel mill in your living room.Is there a way to make a homemade powder like kasenit to case harden low carbon steel?
I believe that mild steel can be case hardened by passing the red hot piece through carbon rich substances.





For instance, running a piece of red hot mild through a pile of charcole, ashes from a fire, or a bail of (wet) straw, can introduce more carbon into the surface of the steel. Then when quenched, the higher carbon content on the outside causes the steel there to become hard.