infi development... is there a story??

[kdstrick]

Reading those old threads is pretty funny/interesting.

People still spread that A8 rumor/lie to this day. Ya just gotta laugh.

 

[littlehoot]

And here all along I thought it was from Nepal

Nepal is the importer, it's brought through there as a first stage cryo treatment

 

[TommyGun56]

Yes, and then it is sent to Mt.Everest for Hands on Testing before being shipped to Ohio-Awesome!!!

Nepal is the importer, it's brought through there as a first stage cryo treatment

 

[Sen]

I've been pretty much assuming that it's a stain resistant variant of S7 tool steel.

 

[Jaxx]

How quickly they forget...

The secret is blue.
Johnnie Walker Blue.
Oops, I've said too much...

 

[OldPhysics]

How quickly they forget...

The secret is blue.
Johnnie Walker Blue.
Oops, I've said too much...

Yes, but it's too late now.

 

[Revolverrodger]

Reading those old threads is pretty funny/interesting.

People still spread that A8 rumor/lie to this day. Ya just gotta laugh.

Some guy ran infi in an analyzer and showed it was the same composition as A8mod

 

[BITEME]

I think drinking had something to do with it

 

[Ratman79]

Pakastan!!?? ....I doubt it.. Unless I just failed to see a "Fusion War Camel", "Straight handle battle goat" and "Anniversary mean turban"

I just about choked on my dinner...THAT was priceless!!!!

 

[mqqn]

How quickly they forget...

The secret is blue.
Johnnie Walker Blue.
Oops, I've said too much...

Yup - post #18...but you let the cat out of the bag saying what JW was.....



best

mqqn

 

[kdstrick]

Some guy ran infi in an analyzer and showed it was the same composition as A8mod

Only if a horse is the same as a zebra. Sure, they share some similarities but so do labs and chihuahuas.

.

 

[littlehoot]

How quickly they forget...

The secret is blue.
Johnnie Walker Blue.
Oops, I've said too much...

Final quench after heat treat. This step has to be completed in house, as there isn't a large enough stockpile of JW blue to accomplish it anywhere except the Busse compound.

 

[xxwarderxx]

"So there I was.....mindin' my own business.......drinking some Black Label...when outa now here's, comes this Angel. All shiny, holding aloft a glowing sword.

We struck up a conversation. I asked this here Angel if he ever got bored o doin' nuttin but the Lords work. After a while I asks him iffin he wants a pull O my bottle. He says yes, and one drink leads to another. Before I know it, he's offerin me this big ol shiny sword for a fresh bottle of that Black Lable. I tell him that's not a fair deal (after all, I got some plenty of it. Then he says to me "well, I recon I could tell you how to make more of this here steel, so you can have more swords."


The rest is history.....

Lol. Brilliant.

 

[Robdude]

Anyone else read Atlas Shrugged?....I picture Jerry as kind of a Hank Rearden.. Yes that's a complement..

 

[resinguy]

Some guy ran infi in an analyzer and showed it was the same composition as A8mod

Can you provide the link, please?

Cobalt has covered this pretty thoroughly, and has the data to show that INFI is not the same as A8 Mod.

 

[Robdude]

Can you provide the link, please?

Cobalt has covered this pretty thoroughly, and has the data to show that INFI is not the same as A8 Mod.

ya if its the one im thinking of, they were claiming there was no trace of Nitrogen... I don't know..Im in the ink business where we manufacture printing inks and we have had people run chemical analysis's on our ink and have had a surprising variation of results between different testers.. none of which were dead on accurate to what we the manufacturer "know" our inks contain.
I have heard this to be the case in steel analysis tests as well...but I guess I could be wrong..

 

[kdstrick]

Jerry is just putting up a smoke screen here. We all know that INFI just just K329/Chipper steel supplied by Bohler....with a little nitrogen and some JW Blue in the alloy.



I also found this little jewel out there in the landfill -

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/84820-INFI-Contest-Winners!?p=703374#post703374

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mqqn

Read these Resinguy.... Perhaps this is where the A8 stuff originated. (mqqn's first link) See quote:

Johannings modified A8 :

0.55% Carbon
0.30% Manganese
0.95% Silicon
8.25% Chromium
1.25% Molybdenum
1.25% Tungsten

InFi :

0.5% Carbon
8.25% Chromium
1.3% Molybdenum
0.36% Vanadium
0.74% Nickel
0.11% Nitrogen
0.95% Cobalt

Not the same steel, and of course though several makers have kept propogating such rumors, none have actually made a knife out of modified A8 which could duplicate the live performance tests done by Busse.

-Cliff

It's pretty funny how anyone could claim they are the same while being so obviously different. The link is worth a read... the fella who posted it makes a fine crawfish exit. Internet genius just posting something he "heard" represented as "fact". *sigh.... Seems it's been repeated often enough to where some people still think it's true. Extensive research has revealed a photo of the original poster of this information as follows:

Besides being a steel composition expert he is also a ninja.

.

 

[Cobalt]

mA8 and INFI are not the same. Jerry stole INFI from Al Gore who invented it along with everything else.

 

[The Last Confederate]

Modern "INFI" no longer has cobalt or nitrogen in it, and hasn't for a while. It is basically M-Infi renamed.

 

[Cobalt]

Modern "INFI" no longer has cobalt or nitrogen in it, and hasn't for a while. It is basically M-Infi renamed.

Part of this is true. Unfortunately, the spectral testing which I had done does not detect nitrogen. Nor did the testing done by the forum member who originally figured out INFI's original formula. So we do not know if nitrogen is still in INFI or not. There is another missing element from modern INFI but it was also missing in M-INFI.