[TheForge] 1/4" Square - Oops!

[Phil]

Walt:

2 things:

1.  If the original length was 8', it was probably
cold rolled.

2.  It's a moot point anyway.  After the fire it WAS
hot rolled.

Phil
--- "Walter L. Mullett" <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:

> 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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