[TheForge] What kind of steel is this

Mon Jan 21 21:38:00 2002

I got what I swear is 160 ft of 1095 1/4" round. It was supposed to be 
A-36. But if water quenched its like glass.

mike

At 06:16 AM 1/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At a wild guess, this might be spring stock, and needing annealed before
>making small adjustments will be possible.
>
>Rick Crawford at  Rafter Lazy C
>Home of Rick's Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
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>home page = http://www.tbcnet.com/~rafterlazyc/
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "H and P Foster" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:26 AM
>Subject: [TheForge] What kind of steel is this
>
>
> >
> > A few months ago I was at a scrap yard and found and bought about 80 feet
>of
> > 1/4" round stock.  One of the first things I did with it was for a project
> > that required forging and drilling of a hole.  No way could I drill the
> > hole.  I carried on with some other stock for that project and forgot
>about
> > that material until today.
> >
> > What I was doing today did not require any drilling, only fitting to shape
> > and some brazing. The material took the brazing ok, but when it cooled
>down
> > and I was making small adjustments to the shape, it promptly broke cleanly
> > in half.  This happened twice. What kind of material would do that?
> >
> > thanks for any help.
> >
> > Harry Foster
> > Rusty Dog Forge
>
>
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