Actually no I won't, I am not enough of a book worm to read many other languages yet
, in that area I can only be envious of your abilities Vassili.
I hope this may help:
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It does not always work so I did it by copy-paste here
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Auto translation of Victor Kuznetsov article
http://www.kuznec.com/svarka.htm
"As everybody knows carbon burns down made of steel with the force welding. So after the first welding its quantity decreases by 0.3%, and each following welding reduces the carbon content in the packet by 0,1%. These numbers gave L.B.Arkhangel'skiy of 6 years ago in the journal "metallurgist", then A.Mar'yanko into "cut" finally I.Kulikov in the "blade", after adding that "no one nothing of new about Damask steel now writes, only they copy and is repeated each other". Thus, the fact of carbon depletion was authoritatively proven. Is especially convincing was convincing the analysis of contemporary Damask steel, in which C=0.6%, although it is clear that spring (S=0.65%) least carbonaceous component of these Damask steel, and steel U -8; SHKH-YSHCH and file do have S=0.8-1,2%. where they did disappear these percentages? - they burnt out. Old Damask steel are not entered in this iridescent picture: three-layered Damask steel from great Novgorod, XVv. Novgorodians even somehow can be explained: welding only by one, steel took U -19A (not worse), is a little burned-out, that was remained it was sufficient so that we would hesitate in thought. So V.Basov it wrote, "that most highly carbonaceous Damask steel, which it cooked, had S=1,4% and it does not have a concept, as is obtained Novgorod Damask steel S=1.7%". As so! I understand - them saved ignorance of language and distance from the world center of blacksmith craft. If they would know, they read, then even they would not undertake their they were rolled. I put itself in their place, completely I forget about the achievements, progress, authorities - in the memory there remains only truism, known to each blacksmith from the generation: flame in the furnace consists of two parts. Lower part - oxidizing, with the surplus of oxygen; upper part - reducing - with the surplus of carbon monoxide. I get accustomed to this flame. Yes really here bright, white point as from the electro-welding, to eyes it is painful to look - precisely in it I always heated packet for the welding, and higher than it - yellow zone with the soot. In it even does not be desirable to place the metal, in - the first it is clear that it will not be heated, but even if it is heated, then indeed is slow, but the time of money. Nevertheless - experiment requires victims. To Beer the spring, I place into the zone of reducing flame and I await. I await already 20 minutes, it were heated to the dark yellow color, nothing it occurs, then suddenly it begins to be fused on the passage to the light yellow, as stearin spark plug and by drops it drips on the bottom of tuyere - there are no sparks in the mention. I pull out spring, look, the smooth fused surface of clean gold color. Analysis to carbon: S=1,9%. The spark from this film is yellow, is short, downy as in steel (in cast iron - long and red). This film is very thin, some microns and more thickly it does not become, is how much not Grey, since its constant fusion occurs and the runoff (photo of this film see in the gallery on
www.kuznec.com). I simultaneously voice the assumption that gold ebb on the Damascus steel - this determined % of carbon. Thus appeared the thought to conduct welding in the reducing flame. Experience the first: for the ease of calculation I take one steel: 9KHS. I gather five developments on the metal into the packet and make 16 weldings, approximately 10000 it is layer. Analysis showed: (to look figure) the experience of the second: Two developments from U -1Д precise analysis U -1Д: (to look figure) after by the 7th of the weldings: (to look figure) small increase in carbon speaks about the small number of weldings. It is still small factual material in order to assert accurately, and approximately already it is possible to say that every 7 weldings increase the carbon content in the packet by 0,1%. I assert that it is possible to create "Damascus" - as steel with the properties it is higher than in source materials, but not the mixture of steels with burnt out carbon and low working qualities. Carburizer consists of the mixture of sawdust from under the emery and cast iron. This mixture is fused into alloy steel having S=1,2%-1,5%. Certainly, composition depends on that, who on this emery process what steel. In me the collection of steels is such: U -1А, U -1Д, KHF-SHCH, 9KHS, 9KHFM, 8Kh', 'Kh". It is understandable that sawdust - these are oxides: carbon of sgorel, master alloy remained, but they are restored by cast iron and seams are obtained white, dense, carbonaceous. Flux I use high-temperature. For this into borax we add common salt and ground bottle glass. Only green. It will approach from the beer bottle, but it is better to take in the green bottle of fault "Carmenere" or "Sira", the productions of Chile - to my taste - are better in the world (true, not cheaper than 12 uyey for the bottle). However, this is theme for another periodical. So here, high-temperature flux does not flow even with the white luminescence of metal, if proportions are correctly selected. Which to make sufficiently easily is purely visual: if flux is too liquid - add still salt and glass, if it is dryish and is not melted, then augers and glass. The forging with 1300t looks like caramel and will not sparkle with this flux, i.e., oxygen does not penetrate it even on the anvil. We boil thoroughly 7-20 times, packet is ready for the forging. It is possible to forge, but personally I still attempt to convert into the Damascus steel, i.e., nagrevayu to 1300t I leave in coals until the morning - let it be it crystallized, as he wants. Next day the forging occurs at a temperature not above 950t, but the final removal of outlines occurs with 700t. hardening usual: 800-.830t into oil t=90-200. One additional problem simultaneously was decided: the welding-in of high-carbon steel into the low-carbon. In order to weld these two began together, them usually tyuey nagrevayut to different temperatures: low-carbon to 1300t, and highly carbonaceous to 1150-.1200t, they connect on the anvil and forge. Thus, for instance, welds on blade to the axe. But this is single-time welding, and for obtaining Damask steel do be required 5-20 weldings with 1300t (otherwise low-carbon steel they are not welded) that to make, if it is high - carbonaceous, alloy steels with 1200t are destroyed? It turned out that they are destroyed, if we attempt ourselves to weld them immediately, in flight, and after several weldings with t=1150 and forgings it becomes trained to high temperatures, more thermo-durable and is maintained welding at the end of the process. To mean, before welding U -1Д in the spring, it it is necessary to anneal and to forge, or to make first 3-4 weldings itself with itself, and then to cook. Secondary special features of this welding method: disappears effektnost', by something to astonish the spectators: there is no roaring fan, there is no furious- white glow of forging, does not flutter on the smithy liquid cast iron - everything appears as usual forging. So that is necessary to select, between the spectacular transformation they became into iron and the calm creation of Damask steel. The second: the furnance loss of metal because of low temperatures and flux decreases - output is more. I drew the conclusion that enemies in force welding two: oxygen and uneven heating, but in no way reduced temperature. In the zone of oxidizing flame these enemies are strong: oxygen penetrates all slots, and uneven heating consists in the fact that the surface of packet already burns, and the temperature inside an even insufficient for the welding. Placing the packet scarcely higher - into the reducing flame, we of these two enemies get rid: there is no surplus of oxygen, and slow heating guarantees the uniformity of the warming up of entire packet. I await the confirmation of results from the brothers on the reason and the anvil. Since the article was written in 200yag., I want to add that to March 200shchg. welded Damask steel: S=1,8%(of 9 strips U -20A and of 8 strips U -1Д, of 3 weldings) and three-layered Damask steel for 2 weldings: Persian Damascus steel S=1,65%, plus U -1Д, plus is file. I now make the attempts to weld Damask steel S=2,0%, if it comes out, then I will study its qualities for completing the table about the cutting properties of steels."
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