[TheForge] What kind of steel is this

Tue Jan 22 00:34:01 2002

At 07:08 PM 1/21/02, you wrote:

Harry;
A small section like 1/4" looses heat fast . Brazing itself puts a 
surprising amount of stress on steel...it is possible to part 18 ga steel 
with a brazing  bead.  You may well  have brought home some tool steel... 
Here are some things to try.
Pre and post heat the piece, bringing the steel down slowly.
Bury the piece in ashes or vermiculite while still hot and let cool slowly.
You may get away with simply tempering  the steel before bending.
That size makes nice little chisels and chasing tools...
................Pete

>I think I tried annealing it the first time and it made little difference.
>The breaks came near to where I had been doing the brazing, and there was no
>quenching done.
>
>Harry
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>
>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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>----- 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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