Steve Sells

Jump start or not. steve check this site out
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you forgot the head lines at the main page Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Don't want the members here to miss out on the report of the assassination plots by the CIA, or all the other conspiracy's they report on. IS this a sister publication of the National Enquirer or a competitor ? I didnt see the section about Elvis or the Children fostered by UFO's, are they is a secret file there?

LOL thanks for the laugh tho

He is in good hands up there, as he has Weiland and Mimer to assist in his training.

On a more serious note, we take our forum more seriously than a kids text message. If you take it seriously you will get alot of help, Welcome to I Forge Iron.

Its funny you guys inject yourselfs with the very thing your trying to combat. Our immune system works good on its own and those shots might do more harm than good, thanks but no thanks.

Thank you for your opinion. For the rest of us that prefer informed information, the injection is not the same as what we are trying to prevent, whether tetanus or Flu, though it is a jump start of killed targets, intended to help get our bodies to fight back by creating antibodies.

Please read up about it, or better yet ask a real doctor, we try to pass on accurate information here. Not proliferate rumors and fears. People are free to use or ignore modern medicine as they choose.

same thing happened to me last night, using simple high-carbon steel (approx 1090), except I edge quenched in water. Two separate deep running cracks started at the edge. A second knife was fully emersed in water w/o problem.

I wish this were a better science rather than a crap shoot

This is the main reason why we use a fast oil, not water for high carbon, remember that the spec sheets are for 1 inch thick sections, not the 1/8 blades. Mineral oil can give a hamon. Water many times will crack 1080 and higher carbon steels. Mystery steels including old files, need testing before we dump it in water and ruin it. Some old Files may be F-1 and tungsten doesn't like water at all.

got my last one 2 weeks ago when I got my head cut open. every 5 to 7 years I get an excuse to get another one... hazard of knife making, and being an electrician, too many HVAC things with rough edges.

A few days before Pete got to my house for the hammer in trip, he got a spider bite on his left leg. It was swelled up and red, after the next day the swelling went down, another day passes, and I noticed the red area on his leg was larger in diameter...

Pete called me this morning. After getting home he saw his Doctor, and discovered it was not a reaction to a spider bite. Fat Pete has LYME, and he will be on treatments for a while.

Welcome aboard

Welcome to I Forge Iron, read all you can, and stay safe.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, you have a few people smithing in your area, feel free to ask if you have problems navigating this site.

Welcome to I Forge Iron, there is plenty of things to read, here and we have 3 search engines. Feel free to ask for help !

After forging to the desired shape I let the work cool down till it just about stops glowing. Then I plunge the part that I want to harden about two inches into water.
I repeatedly put it into and out of the water but I am careful NOT to plunge to exactly the same depth. I am trying to avoid a sharp line between the hardened portion and the softer portion. I continue this till the first two inches are black.

When you want to harden, heat to above non magnetic, then plunge into the oil. By allowing it to cool so far first, you have lost the quench window, and that is why it is not getting hard. The interrupted quench at the end is nice for small tools, but you are jumping in and missing a few things.

sure just harder work... Use a round stock section as a bottom fuller, nothing special to buy, just make do with what you have.

well if the shoe fits........... (and if it don't, you should call a Ferrier )

The 1700's smiths didn't have to worry about it because they didn't have Stainless steel, Powdered metal technology alloys, or any other alloy steels.

As for definitions, this is the knife section, so its natural to assume its about blade steels, if not post is in general. Blade steels requirements can vary so much its almost a requirement to state what steel is being used in order to get any meaningful information in the first place :D

PLEASE read the sticky's in the safety section of the forums.

If you have a oil hardening steel, water can kill it, period. as for tempering/quench, WSB2 may not understand that it is needed to stop over-heating the tempering portion. And dont forget that used springs may already have had the cracks from prior use.

Knee mail Sent. we will share the word.

it it costs over $600. But it looks like a good investment.

Over $600 for limited use, IE one radius hollow grind only and limited supplier for their stones
---vs---
a belt grinder that can use any manufacturers belts, various diameter sheels, platten or slack belt use, with any grit... hmmm


its all point of view

I think the technical term is Texture tool ?

There is plenty of detail in the stickys, as well as advanced things in the knife sticky's. Basically one heats the steel then allows to cool in still air.

So you are advocating cold forming used cars springs? How do you figure that is safe? micro fractures can be a problems with any used steel also.

How much Oxygen is bound up with the carbon in the steel matrix ?

I am aware that nickel wont form carbides, but 15N20 is not an effective barrier to carbon migration in my experience, or the lab testing I have seen, we need a lot more than 2% nickel for that.

I will try to find a new source for the testing, as when I pulled up the old thread the link was not functional anymore.

Many think of 52100 as a Super 5160. Its just harder to work from the chrome, and hard to find in blade friendly sizes..

I used to think the same thing, but as the testing has proved, most people dont keep it low enough, and as the temperatures rise so does the speed of migration