[TheForge] Alternatives to Pure Iron

[Ralph Sproul]

    Steve, Yeah I'll bet!  Now that they can get 75 cents a pound (retail)
for angle iron and beams.........these mills are having a hay day.

    I can just hear it now    ............you want what?...........yeah
we'll be rolling that in about two years ........maybe.  You want to put
your order in for 400 tons now?

    It certainly gives credit to buying in bulk and keeping one's rack and
shelves full.

    The old fellows that taught me early on about smithing said they used to
buy 1005 for all their forging.  They gave it up when they couldn't get it
any more...........they said "you had to work to hard to move this new
material".   Maybe it was they were 93 and 97........that could have had
something to do with it.    :-)

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Smith" <sos at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Alternatives to Pure Iron


> I tried a couple of steel companies selling relatively pure iron for
> transformer use. The one that actually sounded possible said no way,
> their mills were full of structural steel orders. No stock.
>
> Steve
>
> Bruce Freeman wrote:
> > Pure iron disappeared and I'd like to see it back.
> >
> > Roger Duncan passed away, and we haven't heard yet what his family
> > plans to do with the remaining stock of "double aught" iron.
> >
> > Until one of these becomes available, what do we do.
> >
> > Rumor has it that many appliences (washers, dryers) have 1008 or such
> > as the outer sheathing.  You have to knock off the enamel.  This would
> > be roughly 18 or 20 gauge material, I think.
> >
> > I've come across some old railings - little things used for a few
> > steps, fabricated stuff imitaing wrought iron - that are apparently
> > fairly low carbon.  Maybe 1010?  This steel works very nicely.
> >
> > Anyone have other ideas?
> >
> > Bruce
> > NJ
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