[TheForge] Forging Tungston?

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 10/23/2010 4:55 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> peter fels&  phoebe palmer wrote:
>> *Bob;
>> is that stuff too brittle to be used as a struck tool?
> Tungsten is actually not brittle at all.  It is, in fact fairly soft.
> It machines pretty well with right tooling.  Tungsten is used to make
> penetrators for armor piercing projectiles.  Like uranium, it is dense,
> so when you pop a 15 to 20 pound, 1.75" diameter chunk of what they call
> "long rod" out the snoot of a gun at 5800 fps, you have incredible
> penetrating power due to the high sectional density, which is in part
> due to the high specific gravity of the material.  Hardness is not a
> requirement as everything liquefies on impact, penetrating and then
> showering the inhabitants of the hardened target with a cloud of molten
> metal and probably ionized gases.  It is claimed that one of the rocket
> assisted long rod projectiles strikes at about 30 THOUSAND fps.  At that
> point you probably have a plasma weapon in essence.
That's when you know your power hammer is too big! WOW!
\
 From this i infer that the TIG tungstens are all alloys, not just the 
one's marked as so.
Seeing as they are brittle.
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