[TheForge] A36 vs 1018

GRAF adveniam at att.net
Fri Feb 13 08:35:48 EST 2009


I've learned the hard way to never just ask for mild steel.
I ate my losses on that one , because they had given me what I'd asked for.

 From that point on I have always asked for 1018 if I wanted to forge 
weld something.

Mike Graf


Mike Spencer wrote:
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> I just take it for granted that what I get, when I just order
> off-the-rack mild steel stock will probably fall within reasonable
> usability specs for structural purposes. But that's all I expect.
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> - Mike
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