[TheForge] 1/4" Square - Oops!

[Walter L. Mullett]

A few years ago, I was buying steel from Summit Steel, a supplier in Akron 
that had a fire.  At that time, they let us go into the burned out building 
to find items we wanted.  I found a whole rack of 1/4" hot.  Some of it had 
already rusted together from the exposure to the fire and water.  I bought a 
few handfuls not knowing what all I would use it for... wish I had gotten 
more now that I only have a couple of 8' pieces left.

Walt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil" <mobjak at yahoo.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: [TheForge] 1/4" Square - Oops!


>I meant to reply to the last e-mail about 1/4" square
> hot rolled key stock, but I mistakenly hit delete.
>
> I don't think there is such a thing as 1/4" square hot
> rolled key stock.  I might be wrong, I've been wrong
> once before.  I think that key stock by it's very
> nature and the purpose it's intended for is cold
> rolled.
>
> I started blacksmithing in the late 1970's working at
> Colonial Williamsburg.  When I first started working
> there, they were still getting 1/4" square hot rolled.
> They also got 7/16" round hot rolled which I haven't
> been able to find in about 20 years.  By 1979 or 1980,
> we could no longer get 1/4" square hot rolled.  We had
> three major metalworking groups at Colonial
> Williamsburg (I'm not counting folks like the gunsmith
> or the wheelright), the historic area blacksmith shop,
> the production shop, and the maintenance shop.  We
> bought a lot of steel, so it wasn't a case of we were
> a small customer.  And, we couldn't get 1/4" square
> hot rolled in any quantity.
>
>
>
>
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