metalmaster1766 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 ok, so yesterday i was trying to forge weld a bunch of bandsaw blade pieces, banding stock pieces together, everything was going just fine, i started with 11 pieces, welded them together, folded it 4 times, then i remembered i had a piece of 3/4 x 1/8 x 8" long pices of D2 tool steel laying around, so i figured what the heck, ill use it on this, so i got it all ready to forge this morning, fired up the forge, set the piece in the forge, when my phone rang, i was on it for about hmm let me look at my phone, 4 minutes and 15 seconds, i picked it up to hit it with the hammer to weld the tool steel to it, and it completely melted everything off the end of the handle i had attached to it, i did manage to get a small piece of it out of the forge, but for the most part 2/3 of it melted away, i did have a shut off valve on my burner with a needle valve to shut off most of the gas for such occassions, but the needle valve crapped out on me, and i took it off, and i thought i was doing so well on my first forge welded part, that was yesterday, what a change of days will do, ill get my needle valve fixed up and have another go at it as soon as i pick up another bandsaw blade Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I have a friend who once melted his entire billet in his aspirated gas forge at a demo---he got to talking and.....it was kind of neat looking into the back of the forge and seeing the puddle of molten steel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Zietman Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 if it's all melted, it'll be an interesting hybrid steel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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