monstermaker Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I've tried searching for this, but haven't found it yet. My local scrapyard just got in a bunch of 1045 and 4140 in various sizes. There are several hundred feet of 5/8" round 4140, that I was thinking of using to make some more tongs. Is there any reason that 4140 makes for a bad set of tongs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 4140 makes excellent tongs and 5/8" round is a good size. 1045 is darned good tong stock too. They're both springy so you can forge tongs thin and light without sacrificing grip strength. 4140 doesn't work harden like low alloy steels and is very durable. Either would make good trading stock with the blacksmith community. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstermaker Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, Frosty said: 4140 makes excellent tongs and 5/8" round is a good size. 1045 is darned good tong stock too. They're both springy so you can forge tongs thin and light without sacrificing grip strength. 4140 doesn't work harden like low alloy steels and is very durable. Either would make good trading stock with the blacksmith community. Frosty The Lucky. Awesome! Thank you. I'll snatch some up. The smallest diameter of 1045 was 1", so more than I want to draw out. They had 4140 in 5/8" and 2", and 1045 in 1", 1.25", and 1.5". I picked up some of the 1045 for making some drifts. There's probably 100-200 ft of each if anyone is near Cincinnati. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1045 makes nice axes and such, especially if you weld in a HC bit. Drawing down from 1" for tongs is a bit much unless you're a teen ager. Good score. Must be nice to have access to a scrap yard that'll sell to the public. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstermaker Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 21 hours ago, Frosty said: 1045 makes nice axes and such, especially if you weld in a HC bit. Drawing down from 1" for tongs is a bit much unless you're a teen ager. Good score. Must be nice to have access to a scrap yard that'll sell to the public. Frosty The Lucky. Yeah, I don't have the energy for that, as much as I would like to think I do.. Having access to a scrapyard is wonderful. We have several big ones here in town, but most won't sell anything to the general public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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