Proposal for a special run of steel...

Bohler makes a grade of steel, K600 that is not too far off your recipe except is has a little more nickel and a little less carbon. They use this material for jaws of life tools. Search the web and you can find it.
 
IronWolf said:
I think you have a nice mix there, except for the carbon. I think it is a little high. you may have problems with cementite forming on the grain boundaries, and at that level, you will have all plate martensite, which may be a little brittle. I don't think you would want to go much higher than .90% C

IIRC, L6 with .75C is practically at the euctoid point, since the nickle will not form carbides, there is actually less iron to mix the carbon with. The Cr and Mo, if they were to form Cr3C and Mo3C, would only lower the available carbon by about .02-.03% Once the Ni is figured in, the iron/carbon ratio is roughly equivalent to a .80 C steel.

If I am off, I hope someone can point it out.

Ken Nelson
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The carbon is high on purpose. I'm designing this steel mainly for the purpose of mixing with other steels for damascus. O1 has .90-.95% C,
1084, of course, has .80-.90% C. Once you weld up your billet to 300+ layers the carbon will be evened out, and the overall C content will be lower.
Also, nobody complains about W2 having 1.00% C. ;)
I think 1084 will also make plate martensite. :confused:
Thanks for your input. As I said before, I'm not a metallurgist. But I really want the high carbon. Otherwise, L6 or 15n20 would work fine for me.

sunfishman said:
No moly and .60 manganese.
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Thanks, Don, that sounds good.

Satrang said:
Bohler makes a grade of steel, K600 that is not too far off your recipe except is has a little more nickel and a little less carbon. They use this material for jaws of life tools. Search the web and you can find it.
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Thanks for mentioning it. It looks good, except the carbon is way too low. (.45%)
 
If you consider that the 1084 @ .89 Carbon and the L-6 @ .75 you should end up with, if you don't burn off carbon at .82. That's damn close to where you want to be.(In a perfect world.)
 
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Aldo Bruno said:
If you consider that the 1084 @ .89 Carbon and the L-6 @ .75 you should end up with, if don't burn off carbon at .82. That's damn close to where you want to be.(In a perfect world.)
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I don't WANT to be at .84. I want hypereutectoid damascus, or L6 and 15n20 would be good enough, and I wouldn't have started this thread...
 
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