[TheForge] Wire question

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Phlip,
>      I have found that welding just one ned, and not both helps my billet
weld together.  It seems that some steels change size more than others when
you heat them up and welding both sides makes for bowing and wrinkling (read
shears and voids). Welding one side keeps them aligned, but allows them
their own thermal expansion.
>
> -Crimson

Thanks, Crimson. That was pretty much what I'd planned. I have all three of
Hrisoulas' books on the topic, and I've been studying them carefully, and
I've been able to get some advice from a couple of his students, so I pretty
well have the background information down. Now all I need is to get the
stainless steel wire in, and DO it.

No doubt, shortly thereafter, I'll be grouching and complainung, wondering
what went wrong in some aspect or another, but I think, for the moment, I'm
as well prepared as I can get ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....