[TheForge] looking for a chart

[peter fels]

Used to be that most any of the big steel outfits would shower you with that sort of stuff
if you admitted any interest. I'm sure it's online now.
http://www.admiralsteel.com/
Perhaps you need to decide just how technical you'd like to get about it.
http://www.keytometals.com/
It's easy to line your shelves with fat volumes that are a life time of reading, and head scratching.
Do you have a temperature controlled heat treating oven to use?
Temperature indicating markers?
Or are you just faking it like i do?
As i write this i'm going through my related bookmarks and finding most of them are empty slots now.
This is different names for the same specs
http://www.varcoprecision.com/tools.htm
Anvilfire.com used to have a giant list of metalworking links...a Junkyard steels list.
If you want to fuss with HSS steel or some of the other high alloy stuff...You will want to get technical.
If your interest is in literal Junkyard steels, then you are pretty much guessing at the alloy,
and rules of thumb apply.
Forge out a little rod of the material...quench it, polish and run a temper spread by color..quench again and start breaking it off.
Or there's the "filosophic method"
Anvilfire has a bunch of material on that i think. And Iforgeiron probably has by now too.
Wouldn't be surprised if ABANA itself doesn't.
With a spark test, a magnet, some temperature crayons and even one of those surprisingly cheap
IR temperature guns...You can usually get by, mostly.
If you are going to sink a lot of time into a tool..then you'll want to buy new steel and they will give you the heat treat specs.
But you already know this Dave.





On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Dave Mudge wrote:

> I have a chart named "Junk Yard Steels" and it does a good job of
> identifying objects that one may find in a junk yard or just about
> anywhere and naming what steel they are probably made of.
> 
> What I am looking for is a printable chart of different steels and
> their characteristics and perhaps their hardening processes.
> Any information would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> dave m
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