[TheForge] Re: File Making, sniffing up wrought iron

[David E. Smucker]

If there was a market it would be made.  We all (blacksmiths) like working 
with things like pure iron and wrought iron -- but we don't want to pay for 
it.  Pure Iron is the perfict example.  Everyone seems to bitch about A36, 
but most were not ready to pay 5 or 6 times the cost of A36 for Pure Iron. 
We get what we pay for.

Stainless steel, gets paid for because of life cycle cost.  For many 
industrial uses it really pays.  In a number of applications we could do the 
numbers and it said that if mild steel lasted 7 years it was a better deal 
than stainless -- but it was really hard to put a price on downtime for 
replacement of the mild steel -- in the end we went with stainless which we 
guessed had a service live of at least 20 years -- still working fine and 
that has been 19 years now.

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: File Making, sniffing up wrought iron


> From my perspective it is a shame that nobody is making it anymore.  It 
> has some very good qualities and I would imagine it would be a lot less 
> costly than stainless.  I guess some of the troublesome working 
> characteristics made it unworthy of further consideration.
>
> ries wrote:
>> As I understand it, this type of pipe was the last product made of real 
>> wrought iron, and was made at least into the early 70's.
>> I have heard the last mill making it was in Sweden.
>> It had certain chemical plant uses that kept in production until various 
>> alloys of stainless and newer metals finally did it in in the mid 70's.
>>
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