[TheForge] another Fire Steel question

[Dave Brown]

At 13:29 10/01/04, you wrote:
>Thanks Ries,
>
>Daniel Kretchmar
>www.irontreeworks.com
>
>Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one
>trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy
ooh hoo hoo hoo
the
>sky's the limit!
>The Tick
>
>
>Quoting Ries Niemi <rniemi at fidalgo.net>:
>
> >
> > On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 07:51 AM, Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
> >
> > > Where can I get cheap 3/8 drill rod in the twin cities?
> > >
> > > Daniel Kretchmar
> > > www.irontreeworks.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > The only place you are gonna find cheap drill rod is at a junkyard- and
> > then you have no idea what alloy it is, or if it is drill rod or not.
> > High carbon steels are a commodity, and no seller in his right mind is
> > gonna price em below current per price pound for that alloy.
> > And it really helps to get the alloy you thought you were getting, when
> > buying tool steel.
> >
> > I dont know about the twin cities, but you can get average price drill
> > rod anywhere in the US by mail ordering it from either MSC
> > (mscdirect.com) or McMaster Carr (www.mcmaster.com)
> > If you get the catalog from MSC (for some reason getting catalogs from
> > Mcmaster is like winning the lottery- it happens, but not to you), you
> > will also be able to find average priced drills, taps, bandsaw blades,
> > oddball fasteners, and all kinds of other industrial, machinist and
> > metalworking supplies that they dont have at the corner hardware store.
> >
> > ries
> >
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Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
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