[TheForge] pure iron wire?

[Dave Smucker]

Try, the coat hangers if you want, but they are not low carbon, more like 
junk 1045 so they have some strength.  I still suggest the soft 16 gauge tie 
wire as your best bet.  All quality building supply houses should have it at 
low cost and in good unrusted shape.

Dave


>From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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>Subject: Re: [TheForge] pure iron wire?
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:27:13 -0800
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>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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