Nelson44

hello i to am haveing trouble with claying and makeing a refractory for my forge. Sounds like you have a coal forge. I am useing a gas forge and the mix i put together has melted it is goo at forge temp it took quite a while to get to the goo point. So any ways i am looking for a good refractory mix too what i used last time was 20 to 25lbs of fire clay and 25 lbs of morter mix and One small bag of vermiculite and proubly too much H2O. i am going to try something diffrent i think i still got 30lbs of fire caly left.

thanks for the reply i think i was more in the yellow range after i went out and tryed a diffrent billet without the stainless it welded fine but my refractry started to melt bad so i have to re clay its turning to glass so i think i put too much morter mix in it thanks for the advice not to hunt for a better discription for a refractory mix thanks

Hello i am still new to this sight and making Damascus. I have been reading past posts and found them helpful. But have not found my specific problem. What i am working with is a small billet of metal banding and saw blades. My first weld went well at least it seemed to and so did my second what i was trying to do when it went to pot was square up my billet when i laid it along the sides it started to split along the edges. I am working with a gas air dull arm vintuie burners and about 25 psi of a 200 lb tank working my billet at about a light Orange heat any help would be greately appreciated. also maybe it messed me up because i included 2 small thin pices of stanless in that billet

Thank yall for the info i am currently still looking but as of yet had no luck. I do know its some hard stuff. Befor i was just trying to make sure I posted my questions in the right place this is a nice sight and i dont want to mess it up by posteing stuff in the wrong place. just used the caps so some one would see it and not over look that sorry if it was the wrong way to go. anyways yall have a good one

it was very hard to forg the first halph of my first knife project with just a rosebud. I guess no one beside you Bentiron felt like responding to this i still dont know if i am right on this subject PS AM I POSTEING MY QUESTIONS IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

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I believe you are right that the drill bit was HHS and your cottage cheese description is right on the money. I haven

thanks Woody but does that meen i cant forge weld Stainless and Mild steel such as in a layered billet to make some damuscas steel

Hello my name is Nelson this is my first poste thanks to anyone who respons in advance. I have a two venturi burner gas fired forge i put together at work with a 100 lb LP tank my forge seems to work well. What i am haveing a problum with is a little metallurgy problem. Here is what i did i took a high carbon 3/4 die drill bit and mig welded some stanless steel rod to the spiral of the bit with mild steel wire. but that was not the problum. When i put it into my forge to work it to a squar bar i worked it 3 times the first 2 times i worked it at about 9 psi then i tuirned it up to 15 psi and it got hotter like i knew it would but when i took it out and hit it with a hammer 2 or 3 times it fell apart. what did i do wrong? Can you forge stainless and mild and high carbon steel together or am i beating my self over my head with my owne hammer. I also noticed the broken parts of the dril bith that fell apart when it coold it looked like it had a real rough grane structer thanks