[TheForge] RE: candelabra pictures ( was Basket conversion)

Thu Sep 5 23:44:00 2002

Mike, that is interesting.

Dick

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Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: candelabra pictures ( was Basket conversion)

> In a message dated 9/4/2002 11:32:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>
> > I came up with a third option on the basket. After opening them I
quenched
> > them in water. And wvien though they are mild steel they seem to have
> > hardened enough to support themselves.
>
> Hardening the steel baskets (or any of the quench & temper steels,
including
> tool steels), does not make it any stronger as far as resisting bend.  The
> amount that a piece of steel will deflect or bend under weight is called
the
> Modulus or Modulus of Elasticity, or Modulus of Rigidity, and as strange
as
> it sounds, is the same for a piece of annealed or fully hardened steel.  A
3
> ft. long bar of 1/2 inch diameter drill rod held on one end in a vice, and
a
> 5# weight hung on the other end, would bend or deflect the bar the same
> amount if the drill rod was annealed (Rockwell C 24) as you purchased it
or
> Rockwell C 62 after hardening.  It will take a "set" with less weight as
the
> yield strength is lower on the soft steel.
> Mike Schermerhorn
>
>
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