[TheForge] Re: pure iron wire?

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

They really built them sincerely back then.
Back in my starving artist days ( they ended yet?) i used to take 
those disks in a couple of sizes, bend them up a bit and stack 
them atop a thin piece of rod. A splash of braising rod to hold 
them together and I had a metal "flower". They helped feed me 
until i got  really sick of making them....pf

Mike Spencer wrote:
> pete f> Similarly, it ought to be possible to use those plates as 
> pete f> elements in pattern welding billets...or just forge weld the 
> pete f> transformer plate core into a solid piece of pure iron.
> pete f> Does this seem right?
> 
> Ah!  Well, I have a whole pile of motor core laminae from a 15HP
> motor, about the size of frisbees but with teeth.  They actually frisb
> moderately well but at the risk of removing random bits of anyone who
> might get in the way.  Now I have an idea of what to do with
> them. Never throw anything away!
> 
> Charles> Modern laminated cores are generally silicon steel.  One of
> Charles> the reasons motors and transformers have gotten smaller.
> 
> Well, this motor was neither "smaller" nor modern, about the size of
> half an oil drum, maybe 1000# before I stripped it for the shaft. And
> probably late 1920s to mid '30s vintage.  Ho hum, another exciting
> project. :-)
> 
> 
> - Mike
>