[TheForge] Steel for Strikers (flint sources?)

[David E. Smucker]

Hay rake springs are mostly 1095.  Sometimes you can find them as scrap. 
New one are about a buck -- most are 1/4 dia.  You can buy water hardening 
drill rod from ENCO a low price most of the time from their sale catalog. 
Sometimes they have free shipping.

Dave Smucker
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From: <dan at irontreeworks.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Steel for Strikers (flint sources?)


>I use 1095. It produces the most consistant sparks.  It isn't cheap unless 
>you
> use old springs.  If you aren't making too many, you could use old car 
> springs.
> If you have access to a junk yard, pick up a bunch of old springs.  I had 
> to
> make a few hundred so I invested in some stock (1/4 x 1/2). It required 
> less
> work than flattening the springs.
>
> BTW:  Anyone know where I can get some flint flakes?  I need a couple of 
> hundred
> to sell with my strikers this summer.  My source dried up and someone on 
> this
> list sent me some a few years back, but I don't remember who....Mike?
>
> Advice anyone?
>
> Dan
>
> Quoting John Elliott <JElliott at sycomtech.com>:
>
>> Ok if you needed to buy off the shelf steel to use for flint strikers 
>> what
>> would be the best/lowest cost?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> John
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