Thankyou To Matt Doyle

Robert Mayo

Robert Mayo

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I would like to thank Matt for getting my steel analysis done for me. Here are the numbers he came up with. The closest info he could find was maybe a version of possibly L6 if anyone has any thoughts on this let me know your opinions. Thankyou in advance.
Bob
C 0.630%
Mn 0.44%
P 0.012%
S 0.001%
Si 0.22%
Cu 0.02%
Ni 0.74%
Cr 0.43%
Mo 0.072%
Sn 0.002%
V 0.002%
Ca 0.002%
B 0.0002%
Ti 0.001%
N 0.023%
Fe 97.36%
Ce 0.855%
 
Bob,
I really thought someone would have chimed in to help you. Perhaps if you edited the title to include something about steel analysis???
Matt Doyle
 
Almost looks like 8670, except the moly is a little low. What's Ce? Cerium?
 
Bob,
I have been searching for that same answer for a long time. I have an analysis from a foundry lab on the steel I have. It is an industrial saw blade with carbide teeth about 3/16" thick and 26" in dia. I have made some very good knives from it over many years and have had lots of really good feedback concerning performance. The analysis seems very similar to the one you posted. It seems to be within range of a few different steels, but there has been a lot of discussion about tollerances and what is today isn't necessarly what it was classed as in the past, according to different charts. I have used these and have enough stock to last a long long time. I use other steels as well and in comparsion during forging it seems to have to be worked hotter than others like 5160 or 1084. I do both stock removal and forging.

C 0.660
Mn 0.692
P 0.007
S 0.008
Si 0.273
Cu 0.0518
Ni 0.0588
Cr 0.343
Mo 0.003
V 0.002
Al 0.023

Ramsey
 
Phillip,
Ce is indeed Cerium. Bob had two samples I tested for him. Both samples were obviously the same grade of steel, but different heats and both had nearly identical amounts of Cerium???? I never even heard of Cerium until a few weeks ago when I had another sample tested for someone else and now it seems like everything I have tested has significant amounts of Ce in it.:confused:
Matt
 
Matt i tried to edit but you can not edit the title. I had to ask my daughter last night what ce was and we looked it up in the periodic tables. But i have no idea what it is there for. The guy that gave it to me said the factory made ice skate blades from it but it rusts very easily.
Thanks to all that have repied to this all info is great!
Bob
 
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