Fdisk
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Trustworthy former firefighter
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cna i currently care for my wife
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I have been trying to find it but this connection is taking 10 - 15 mins per page to load it may be the pc but it makes searching a big pain
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i dont recall asking for help with that i hadnt read in the rules where my spelling had to be perfect i guess i may have missed it and sorry if i posted it in the wrong section i had a simple question i dint need alession in grammer the site says blacksmithing so i thought that is what i could ask about sorry if i have offended have a good day
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Ok ive got my blade ready for hadening and tempering my blade is an old leafspring from a truck ill be useing oil heated to close to 130f to harding it nor when tempering in a oven ill back it at no highter than 450f for 1 hour and repeat 3 times correct or do i need to do it differnt i had all this info on my pc and after the power comp sent me a $6000 bill for 1 month that im fighting with them over now im staying with friends and useing dial up so its realy hard to search for the info i dont want to ty up there pc no longer than needed so if 1 of you folks could give me a direct link or tell me how the wifes oven tempering is done i would realy thank you
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Well i already miged it its a small place hope it works ok i do have goog friend who is realy good at tig welding and he has a large tig welder ive never tried tig welding but i will keep that in mind i never thought of that
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i am already pretty good at mig welding self learned but i dont know about what welding does to metals witch brings me to my next question lol ive made 1 cut to many in my blade not pay attention when i set my jig up so would it be ok to mig weld up the cut normalize and go on ?? its only about 1/4 of a inch and isnt in the blade its in the spine my blade is 1/4 thick btw what im doing is making a parceul hollow handle about 2 inch's of it anyway
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What about a truck axle im not sure what type steel it is but could i weld it to spring aswell ?? i also have access to a tig welder
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I just checked out your site you sure do make some nice looking knives i hope i can make blades as nice as those one day
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Would it be ok to mig weld handles madw outa spring steel to a blade made outa spring steel before its heat treated and if it is after thay are welded would i nead to aneal again or normalize before i started heat treating ?
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cant straighten a curved keeps curving back
Fdisk replied to Fdisk's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
fire clay mixed with ashe's and 2 inch thick fire brick its seems everytime i get a good smell of burning wood plus a little of that wet burning wood smell i feel bad and that is what the cowboy charcoal smelt like but iwas as dry as could be -
cant straighten a curved keeps curving back
Fdisk replied to Fdisk's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
that is black pipe the tub is the only galv and i had read where it said the galv tub would work aslong as it was insulated good but as soon as i can ima change that to steel -
gudgeing by that guide its close inbetween 6 and 7 was about the oragne color i got it to but as i said it was in dim light
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ok well from what im reading i think im good i watched it real close in dim light it gor red and when i was trying to anneal i watched it red then a orange color all this was in dim light not night just dim
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well not anything real notable maybey a few when i pulled it outa my forge but i just thought that was just from raking out some coal aswell there where no sparks when i hammered and it wasnt just poping of sparks own its own ?
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spring steel from a truck was annealing and normalizing
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How do know if i burnt my steel i know its a newby question