Then they have to go through the trouble of keeping the tubing from sticking to the higher carbon steel inside, and having to peel off the mild can. Why not use high carbon steel and fabricate a tube out of that? And just forge weld it right to everything else? It seems like a good way to circumvent all the problems, in my head at least. I'm curious about how it would affect the final pattern as well.
No, your grinding dust would not make good fill for a canister. The act of grinding causes the material to oxidize. As you know, metal oxides have a far higher melting temperature than the metals do. It wouldn't fuse.
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No, your grinding dust would not make good fill for a canister. The act of grinding causes the material to oxidize. As you know, metal oxides have a far higher melting temperature than the metals do. It wouldn't fuse.