[TheForge] pure iron wire?

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Thanks Gents.
Bruce, Bob..here by the coast, bailing wire dissolves pretty 
quickly and i seldom get any clean enough to try. Some i've used 
in the past had stuff in it that made for a real agitated 
puddle..mostly passable, about like commercial mild gas rod.
  Dave; good, we mess with cement a fair amount and have plenty 
of tie wire..i'll try it in the morning.
Andy; Yeah, i've forged a bunch of that 1/4" rebar bundle tie 
..it does forge nicely...and i've forged down stock to make 
matching welding rod in the past...but too much needed here for that.
Got me thinking now.
Groping back into the dim 60s...i burned a whole hell of a lot of 
coat hanger wire as welding rod...mostly doing fill type modeling 
. I can still straighten out a coathanger, faster than anyone you 
know...haven't done it for years...guess i'll have to go back in 
the closet tomorrow...literally.
Related musing.....the laminated cores of transformers are 
supposed to be pretty pure iron so that they lose their magnetism 
when the current shuts off.
I've hacked some transformers up with my bandsaw and come out 
with stacks of little plates....maybe i'll cut some strips of 
that stuff and see how it welds.
Similarly, it ought to be possible to use those plates as 
elements in pattern welding billets...or just forge weld the 
transformer plate core into a solid piece of pure iron.
Does this seem right?.....pete f

Dave Smucker wrote:
> You should be able to find "tie wire" in both 16 and 10 gauge (or close 
> to these sizes). This tie wire is used for tying rebar etc.  Also called 
> bailing wire, as older bailers used a similar wire to tie hay bails.  I 
> believe most of this wire is made from 1006 or 1008, very low carbon, 
> low alloy steel.
> 
> Dave
> 
>> From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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>> Subject: [TheForge] pure iron wire?
>> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:35:15 -0800
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>> Been frustrated trying to forge torch welded parts and sheet.
>> The available rods have alloying elements designed to work as 
>> deposited...not forged, reheated, rewelded, hammered cold and hot and 
>> so on.
>> So i thought...would pure iron welding rod work?
>> If so, where can i get some?
>> AK steel no longer lists it apparently....pete f
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