[TheForge] Re: Timken Case Hardening

[Andrew Vida]

52100 for an axle?  That seems a mite odd.

Ron Childers wrote:
> Some years ago I made a big knife out of an old axel bearing from a semi. I
> was told it was 52100 and I tempered in oil. It chopped through a 2x4 and
> would still shave, so it must have been pretty good steel. Also made some
> smaller blades out of car axel bearings and big ball bearings; same story. 
> 
> It must have been dumb luck that the bearings weren't Timpkin. Which
> manufacturers use 52100 for their bearings? Machinery's Handbook must have
> contacted Monmoth, Fag, or some other company for their information on
> bearing steels.
> 
> Ron C
> 
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