INFI Chemical Content

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Epsilon

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Would anyone be able to tell me a typical (and full) chemical composition of BUSSE'S INFI steel. I'm too lazy to go get a chemical analysis test done. :p

Domo arigato.
 
I harvested some old posts on this subject...sorry, I can't give full credit on the 1st one (I didn't save the posters name in my file), but Jerry Busse posted the 2nd note:

Originally posted by ET from Panama City FL:

In another post, Mr. Busse agreed that my analysis was correct, with the addition of .11% nitrogen and .5% carbon, which the radioactive isotope spectral analysis can't detect. So, the complete formula is:

V .36% Vanadium
Cr 8.25% Chrome
Fe 87.79% Iron
Co .95% Cobalt
Ni .74% Nickel
Mo 1.3% Molybdenum
C .5% carbon
N .11% Nitrogen

These numbers should not be assumed to be exactly right, the cobalt at .95% is probably supposed to be 1.0%, but they should be close.
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Congratulations to the first 4 posters to name the rather unique ingredient, NITROGEN, in a single guess! The winners are Rob Simonich, Bagman, Bob Irons, and Ugly Jim! Great work boys! We’ll be contacting you by e-mail within the next week.

We at Busse Combat have had a great time with this and want to thank all of the forum members who participated. Sorry I wasn’t able to post immediately at 11:00 p.m. but I had lots of answers to wade through.

A little bit more about INFI.

Carbon makes up approximately .50 with Nitrogen hitting the .11 mark. The nitrogen combines with some of the other elements and enables INFI to deliver enormous levels of toughness and excellent wear resistance at high hardness. The relative ease of re-sharpening has, likewise, become one of its hallmarks.

Thanks again,
Jerry Busse
President
Busse Combat Knife Co.
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Here is the source thread on the first post:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...id=108579&highlight=busse+radioactive+isotope
 
I think that the heat treat that INFI gets is of great importance to this discussion also. Jerry posted some info regarding this last year I'll see what I can do to dig it up ;)
 
Cool, I have never seen that information before. I understand a little bit (thanks middle school chem. :D).
 
Here is some information that Jerry once posted regarding the cryo treatment of the blades. Hopefully it is still relatively current.

Previously Posted by Jerry Busse:
I started doing shallow cryo. with dry ice and acetone as an accelerator, in 1984. We have used deep cryogenics for the past several years. We cryo our blades in a dry, controlled atmosphere. This allows us to take them down to temp. at a very slow rate (10 hours) and hold them down there for a long period of time (48 hours) and then bring them back up slowly (10 hours). They are then normalized with a low temp. oven temper. All in all we do a little over 80 hours of heat treating and tempering. The dry atmosphere with long cycle times has really paid off for us in the performance department
 
Snakes,snails,and puppy dog tails:D :D :confused:
 
A quote I harvested from one of Jerry's posts along the way:

The specific manufacturing process is protected, as is our process of Transversion Wave tempering.
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Anybody have any ideas on what Transversion Wave implies about the tempering process?
 
INFI is made up of:
30% Black Label induced inspiration
70% Pure Freakin' Magic (PFM)

Jerry could have reduced the percentage of PFM, except that Cliff Stamp already existed in the world at that time and Jerry needed to cover some unusual contingent possiblities brought about by that fact. ;) ;)
 
IIRC Transversion Wave tempering is some sort of technology that he picked up when he was burying UFOs in the desert just north of Vegas:cool:

Traded up a bit of Carlings I hear;)
 
Yeah, it had something to do with some time-space whatchamajigger.


... and they said it was just a weather balloon... :rolleyes:
 
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