Steve Sells

Sorry Jerry, I dont drink, but I will settle for Coffee

ok To clear up confusion I merged the new account into the old account so there is only one, and they are no longer separate it worked, I surprised myself

I learned on a Yumi, so I use the left thumb for support not the index finger when the bow allows, and Yes I still have my thumb ring somewhere around here

you should use your old login, its not allowed to have more than one log-in here, Just let me know and I can help you reclaim it if you forgot password or wanted to use the new name or something, Welcome back

My bow can bring down a peterbuilt at 50 yards lol, an Alpine Hunter 100# compound, need to use carbon fiber arrows

ok that is GhostTownForge

Someone from Albuquerque New Mexico sent me a rose today. No clue who sent it as it had no return address or name on the UPS box, nor has anyone asked me lately for my address, If you want it kept private that is fine, if not let my know who you are

Hard to correct things if the metal is cracked from the water quenching too fast, but you know best

cherry red isnt hot enough, and water?!?! if it were hot enough you would have shattered the pliers, try reading the pinned heat treat explanation I already wrote.

you may want to research an alloy called Tumbaga

Around here the delivery charges make it cost about as much as just getting it at the stations anyway

I have to agree with George about location of the tank, not safe that close to the fire at all

Young lady, its amazing how resourceful you are

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Steels xx denotes carbon levels in hundredths of a percent. 10xx Carbon; Mn <1.0 11xx Resulfurized 12xx Resulfurized and rephosphorized 13xx Mn 1.75 15xx Mn 1.0–1.65 23xx Ni 3.5 25xx Ni 5.0 31xx Ni 1.25; Cr 0.65, or 0.80 32xx Ni 1.75; Cr 1.07 33xx Ni 3.50; Cr 1.50, or 1.57 34xx Ni 3.00; Cr 0.77 40xx Mo 0.2%, 0.25, or Mo 0.25 41xx Mo 0.4%, or 0.52 43xx Ni 1.82; Cr 0.50–0.80; Mo 0.25 46xx Ni 0.85, or 1.82; Mo 0.20, or 0.25 47xx Ni 1.05; Cr 0.45; Mo 0.20, or 0.35 48xx Ni 3.50; Mo 0.25 50xx Cr 0.27, 0.40, 0.50, or 0.65 51xx Cr 0.80, 0.87, 0.92, 1.00, or 1.05 52xxx Cr 1.45; C 1.0 53xx Cr 1.80; C 1.0 61xx Cr 0.60, 0.80, 0.95; V 0.10, or 0.15. 72xx W 1.75; Cr 0.75 81xx Ni 0.30; Cr 0.40; Mo 0.12 86xx Ni 0.55; Cr 0.50; Mo 0.20 87xx Ni 0.55; Cr 0.50; Mo 0.25 88xx Ni 0.55; Cr 0.50; Mo 0.35 92xx Si 1.40, or 2.00; Mn 0.65 or 0.85; Cr 0.65 93xx Ni 3.25; Cr 1.20; Mo 0.12 94xx Ni 0.45; Cr 0.40; Mo 0.12 97xx Ni 0.55; Cr 0.20; Mo 0.20 98xx Ni 1.00; Cr 0.80; Mo 0.2 ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Low Alloy Steels Low-alloy steels are a category of ferrous materials that exhibit mechanical properties better than plain carbon steels as the result of alloying elements such as Ni, Cr, W, V, and Mo. Alloy contents of the low alloy category can range from about 2% up to 10%. AISI (American Iron and Steel Institute) Steel codes A Air hardening alloys D Die steel alloys F Tungsten alloys H Hot work alloys L Low alloy M Molybdenum alloys O Oil hardening alloys P Mold steel alloys S Shock resistant steels W Water hardening steels

Veni vidi squishii

I got titles for him, Attack of the killer birch? or for Whom the tree falls?

Understandable, Rich didnt want to write anything for the book, so I was going to edit what he posted in the chat and try to get that usable, and he was not happy about that. He refused to allow it, so after a while I gave up and did it by myself

Glenn conned me into writing my first book, It started as me just cleaning up the chat room knife talks, getting rid of the normal banter of a chat room, then it was organizing the stuff into coherent grouping, then filling out the missing information, after about one year of that then filling in what Rich and I never got around to writing, next thing ya know I have a book, which I never would have done if Glenn had just came out and said I needed to write a book in the first place...

that was my fault I changed it back, I miss-read the title, Dyslexia can be funny at times, I saw a typo where there wasnt one

Since you are not used to heat treating, I honestly suggest hire it out, its not usually very costly, and you should get the best from your steel that way. To maybe save a little money allow them to HT with another batch rather than having to do your asap will save a little on cost and for the record I never threatened to ban anyone nor, do I have a problem with sarcasm

There is nothing about flame hardening, just quench hardening mainly because I dont know anything about flame hardening. so I asked, My pinned post does explain how hardening happens, so changing the method of how we trap carbon in the iron matrix does not make more carbon appear, either its there in the first place or it isnt, so unless other things are added as in a surface treatment of more carbon or nitriding, then as quenched is as hard as it is going to get which iirc was also covered in the pinned post

The heat treat info is posted here free already, pinned partly in knife section, the rest in general heat treating, and book links are in the stores book section, and there is always using the inter library loan if you dont want to buy it. I asked how flame hardening will make it harder than quench hardening, sorry if that hurt your feelings

Very few things have been sent in so far. I dont know what is wrong

not sure how a flame hardening would get it from 45 quenched to 60, please explain

Busy lately, give us a little time to create it, then transfer over the threads