[TheForge] Old Boilers...
Andrew Vida
osan at netlabs.net
Tue Feb 15 19:02:32 EST 2011
Andy Gladish wrote:
> I got some boiler plate from the shipyard that was the nicest mild steel-
> and I don't mean A-36, I mean very low Carbon, it forged like Pure Iron.
> Made a bunch of spoons and forks from that, I'd like to have a few hundred
> pounds of it!
> Has that PI spark, too.
> Though, like you say, it's stubborn to cut- why would that be, anyone know?
> I've never tried to cut Pure Iron with a torch...
Sounds like 1004, which is essentially PI
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