[TheForge] Steel Sources for Weapons

Thu Feb 6 09:20:21 2003

What is a good website with heat treatment information? I know very
little about this also and need to learn.

Chad
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynn Emrich
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Steel Sources for Weapons

Chad, OCS is some peoples short hand for "Old Chivy
Springs." Any springs will work OK but the older ones
are usually 5160, an excellent combnination of steels
for longer blades.
If you are forging I suggest coil springs. Not too
hard to shape and very forgiving in the heat treating
process. Just remember to temper well (3 cycles of 375
for 1/2 hour each seems to work well) because they
will be brittle otherwise.
A difficult project but worth the effort.
Lynn

--- Chad <[email protected]> wrote:
> I appreciate the suggestions of using 5160, 1085,
> and 1095 but I was
> looking for something more along the lines of me
> being able to go out to
> the junk yards or the tracks and find. My
> metallurgical knowledge is
> very small so translating those numbers into items
> is impossible for me.
> If I remember right they represent the grade of
> steel and the amount of
> carbon in it? Was hoping someone could give me some
> everyday items that
> could be used. Again this is just for learning
> purposed at this point.
> Thanks again.
> 
> Chad 
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> 
> 
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