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royboy

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hey guys,thank to a bunch of repys, i now what steel to use to be able to heat treat at home.like 1084,0-1-5660-1095,now!we have a big ole scrap yard here that has lots of good steel.IS there away to identifly the steel???or is it just better to buy some stock,just seems bad,with all this mts of steel. i love to walk around it.any would be great. royboy, ps,how do uyall get them faces on your topics...

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as far as I know there is no way to tell exactly what steel it is, if you know where it came from for example if it came from a saw blade you could contact the company who made it what steal they used. There are ways to guess what kind of steel it is, I know you can touch it to a grinding wheel and depending on how it sparks you can get an idea of what type of steal it is, but as far as I know without some sort of lab tests you can't determine the exact steal type, maybe someone else knows better than I do. I am by know means an expert.
Kyle
 
Roy, you can spark test for carbon content. Strike on a wheel, the tighter the secondary explosion from the wheel and the more frequent, the higher the content. This of course does not tell the whole story. Carbon alone does not make a good blade. You should be able to tell something more about the steel from what it was, ie. saw blades etc.
I have had some luck with L-6 out of old two man drag saw blades. Still some of that luck might be bad depending on the configuration. Good luck.
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Roy In Wayne Goddards book I believe he says most auto sprins are 5160. I also am gonna start using old lawnmower blades. I asked about those one time and several people said they were either 1095 or 5160. One guy was an ex lawnmower repairman and he said a standard lawnmower blade was 5160 on about 99% of them. The best advice I got was from Bruce Evans who told me as long as you know it is a good carbon steel You quench them all at critical then experiment with the oven temp till it satisfies your desired hardness. I do not believe you have to know exactly what steel unless you want a particular or the customer wants to know. Otherwise just find the right oven temp and that will work.

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