[TheForge] Forging Tungston?

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I wanted to know about forging them because they aren't very useful the way 
they are.  Making tools via grinding doesn't sound like much fun, and is a 
bit limiting.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging Tungston?


Sorry, but who would want to forge tungsten?  Who wants to generate the
heat it takes to get tungsten plastic and why?



On 10/22/2010 12:54 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> At our last event I had someone give me a couple pins that he said were
> tungston.  They look like they were punches out of some kind of punch 
> press.
> They are 5/8" dia rd about 8" long with a ring/recess cut in them about 1"
> from one end.
>
> Have any of you worked with tungston? Can I forge them with normal
> blacksmith processes?  What would be the best application for them? It 
> would
> be nice to have a hot cut that I didn't have to worry about overheating. 
> Or
> maybe a hammer head eye drift.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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