What is the strongest, most flexible steel?

Andrew is is sorta right. Mercedes likely uses 6160 in it's lorries(large trucks). 6160 is less tough and less flexible than 5160, a spring steel used in most lighter duty trucks and cars, but it is stronger. In fact, you all have it in your vehicles most likely. It can flex thousands of times a day and still work well as a leaf spring for over 20 years. A large trucks needs more memory and a stiffer, less flexible spring, thus they use 6160 - it basically has vanadium added to it VS 5160 wihch adds some strength at the loss of some toughness.

6160, however, is still tougher and more flexible than Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy is. However, Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy is quite strong, and it takes a good heat treat with 6160 to make it stronger than Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy(per a specific volume VS weight).


WYK
 
most flexible hmm i would guess some steel very low alloyed and low hardness could be wrong tho
 
Ashes said:
Okay, now just WHY was this moved to the "Blade Discussion Forum"? All my other posts get moved to Whine and Cheese! Someone must have just looked at the title. :p

~ashanium...?
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Lol, I can't really blame Kalooch, he has a lot of threads to move every day and he probably can't spend much time reading the text. But it appears that nearly everybody else who answered this thread did the same thing. :D
 
TorzJohnson said:
Lol, I can't really blame Kalooch, he has a lot of threads to move every day and he probably can't spend much time reading the text. But it appears that nearly everybody else who answered this thread did the same thing. :D
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:D Once again, you appear to be correct! ;)

~ashes
 
Mongo-man said:
I would say H1 steel, can't corrode even under hot and moist conditions ;)
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H1 is a fairly strong steel, but as far as being the "strongest, most flexible steel" ? Come on! It'll snap like a twig compared to most "flexible" steels. Were you joking?


Cheers,
3Guardsmen
 
Well, to answer the question of this thread, strength and flexibility are just about complete opposites. As strength goes up, flexibility goes down. It depends more on hardness, grind, and thickness of the spine than it does steel.
 
3Guardsmen said:
H1 is a fairly strong steel, but as far as being the "strongest, most flexible steel" ? Come on! It'll snap like a twig compared to most "flexible" steels. Were you joking?


Cheers,
3Guardsmen
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Larrin said:
Well, to answer the question of this thread, strength and flexibility are just about complete opposites. As strength goes up, flexibility goes down. It depends more on hardness, grind, and thickness of the spine than it does steel.
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Man, this thread just keeps getting better. It should be re-titled "parade of the oblivious".
 
well my post is humerous, Ashes asked what steel was best to compare to her, i was in the assumption that it is not a strictly metallurgy question :D

My answer was a tongue in the cheek answer toward the fact that Ashes is female and the fact that Ti doesnt' hold an edge well.

H1 is moderatly strong ( but not indestructable), can be carried close to the body (yummie), is sharp, and can be sharpened easely. It is not a steel that is unobtainable, but a good all round steel with some added extra's that make it extra attractive= ashes

An good all round girl with added extra's that won't cost you an arm and a leg, is there when you need it, looks and acts sharp, won't let you down under adverse conditions and can be easely brought back to new like condition with ease!

I rather have a H1 version of Ashes then an INFI version ( i would have to put her in the safe, or abuse her to test her resiliance :rolleyes: )

:D So for me H1 is still a good choice.

If i would like to use Ashes to chop down concrete bricks or trees and use her to defuse magnetic mines i would make her in another material.

But because IMHO Ashes is not a women geared toward heavy abuse and dangerous submerged UDT operations H1 steel is my perfect steel for Ashes. :D
 
TorzJohnson said:
Man, this thread just keeps getting better. It should be re-titled "parade of the oblivious".
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That was the first thing that made me laugh all day, and I was crying when I started reading the new posts on here just now. :thumbup: :D

Mongo-man, yours made me smile too. :)

~ashes
 
I was just trying reverse sarcasm (or whatever it might be called), apparently no one got it. I wasn't stupid enough not to read the entire thread before I posted.
 
I read the whole thread, and I'm still lost.

Then again, I don't recognize the username Ashes.
 
The strongest, toughest metal I've tested so far is called XXX-88 by my friend Marty. He got it from ol' Flackface. Now according to Flackface, the metal came from the business end of an alien probe he took while escaping a spaceship after being abducted in his sleep one night. Now some folks might question Flacky's veracity just because he lives in the cabin of an old wrecked C-123 back in the woods and occasionally jumps out its rear door yelling "Geranimo!", but not me or Marty. We know the real deal when we see it, and besides Flacky left with some government agents one night. One of the agents came looking for the probe, but we hid it where he couldn't find it.

Anyway, even after considerable effort, I was never able to forge that metal into a workable blade. No matter how I banged it or bent it the dang stuff would just return to its orginal shape, which as I said was very probe like in appearance. Eventually I gave up on the project for a couple of reasons. The primary one being the fact that it tended to swivel around all by itself whenever anyone walked by, kind of like a compass needle following a magnet, only the magnet in this case tended to be someone's rear end. I swear that piece of metal seemed to have a mind of its own, and a dirty mind at that. The other reason was that it smelled funny, and no amount of washing would get rid of the odor.

One night I went out in the garage and noticed that it was missing. Marty claimed he didn't know what happened to it, and Flackface is still working with the government I guess, because he hasn't been seen in quite some time, so I know it wasn't him. It might have been Marty's wife Prudence who took it because she's a nasty person who always interfers with my knife hobby if she can, although lately she's been walking around with a smile on her face all the time and she hasn't called me an idiot in over two weeks. Who knows?
 
The most flexible steel is probly galvanized 24 guage sheet metal. Thats the flexiblest I've came into contact with.
 
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