[TheForge] 1045 Steel (?)

[Phil]

Peter:

I've used the following folks in New Hampshire. 
Additionally, McMaster Carr carries 1045.

Phil

Name: Burgon Tool Steel
Address: 20 Durham Street
Address2: Pease International Tradeport
City: Portsmouth
State: NH
Zip: 3801
Zipplus:
Country:
Postalcode:
Phone: 800-258-7106
Phone2: 603-430-9200
Fax: 603-430-4004
Email: sales at burgon.com
Website: www.burgon.com
--- Peter Hirst <saltydog335 at aol.com> wrote:

> I am having a terrible time locating a supply of
> 1045 steel (or equivalent) in eastern Massachusetts.
>  Doesn't seem like it should be that tough an order,
> but my two old reliable sources were no help.  The
> sales people didn't even know what I was talking
> about, much less where to refer me.  1018 cold drawn
> was the nearest they could come up with, and that
> aint gonna cut it.  I am making  garden tools (I
> have done the prototypes in 1018), like the ones
> that were made near here by Snow & Neally until a
> couple of years ago.  They are easy designs, and
> just require material a little tougher than mild
> steel, and after a little research I have determined
> that 1045 is just about the stuff I want.  I can buy
> a shipload of it from Earle M Jorgensen, but so far
> I havent found anyplace I can get a hundred feet or
> so (of 3/8 round).  AM I asking for the wrong stuff?
>  SHould I be looking at something else?  ANy Ideas? 
> Thanks.
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