[TheForge] 1/4" Square - Oops!

[Walter L. Mullett]

They were hot rolled - Pieces were much longer - had to cut them.
Walt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil" <mobjak at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] 1/4" Square - Oops!


> 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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