I'm looking for the names of the types of stronger steels, not, worthless alloys like stainless, but stuff like g10, and maraged steel.

12/12/2005 6:41:11 PM

12/12/2005 7:31:03 PM

i installed some schedule 40 carbon steel the other day on my jobsite

12/12/2005 7:43:06 PM

that's sort of a broad question, just go to http://www.matweb.com and search for steel. this is the first 50 results:

1 Cotronics Resbond? 954 High Temperature Ceramic Adhesive, Stainless Steel Composition
2 Thermal Ceramics Firecrete 85 FireMaster
3 AISI 1005 Steel
4 AISI 1006 Steel, cold drawn
5 AISI 1006 Steel, hot rolled bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
6 AISI 1006 Steel, cold drawn bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
7 AISI 1006 Steel, CQ, DQ, and DQSK sheet, 1.6-5.8 (0.06-0.23 in) mm thick
8 AISI 1008 Steel, hot rolled bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
9 AISI 1008 Steel, cold drawn bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
10 AISI 1008 Steel, CQ, DQ, and DQSK sheet, 1.6-5.8 mm thick
11 AISI 1009 Steel
12 AISI 1010 Steel, cold drawn
13 AISI 1010 Steel, hot rolled bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round or thickness
14 AISI 1010 Steel, cold drawn bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round or thickness
15 AISI 1010 Steel, CQ sheet,1.6-5.8 mm round or thickness
16 AISI 1012 Steel, cold drawn
17 AISI 1012 Steel, hot rolled bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round or thickness
18 AISI 1012 Steel, cold drawn bar, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round or thickness
19 AISI 1012 Steel, CQ sheet,1.6-5.8 mm round or thickness
20 AISI 1015 Steel, cold drawn
21 AISI 1015 Steel, cold drawn, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
22 AISI 1015 Steel, hot rolled, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
23 AISI 1015 Steel, as rolled
24 AISI 1015 Steel, normalized at 925?C (1700?F)
25 AISI 1015 Steel, annealed at 870?C (1600?F)
26 AISI 1015 Steel, annealed at 870?C (1600?F), furnace cooled 17?C (31?F) per hour to 725?C (1340?F), air cooled, 25 mm (1 in.) round
27 AISI 1015 Steel, normalized at 925?C (1700?F), 13 mm (0.5 in.) round
28 AISI 1015 Steel, normalized at 925?C (1700?F), 25 mm (1 in.) round
29 AISI 1015 Steel, normalized at 925?C (1700?F), 50 mm (2 in.) round
30 AISI 1015 Steel, normalized at 925?C (1700?F), 100 mm (4 in.) round
31 AISI 1015 Steel, mock carburized at 915?C (1680?F) for 8 hours, 775?C (1430?F) reheat, water quenched, 175?C (350?F) temper, 13 mm (0.5 in.) round
32 AISI 1015 Steel, mock carburized at 915?C (1680?F) for 8 hours, 775?C (1430?F) reheat, water quenched, 175?C (350?F) temper, 25 mm (1 in.) round
33 AISI 1015 Steel, mock carburized at 915?C (1680?F) for 8 hours, 775?C (1430?F) reheat, water quenched, 175?C (350?F) temper, 50 mm (2 in.) round
34 AISI 1015 Steel, mock carburized at 915?C (1680?F) for 8 hours, 775?C (1430?F) reheat, water quenched, 175?C (350?F) temper, 100 mm (4 in.) round
35 AISI 1016 Steel, cold drawn, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
36 AISI 1016 Steel, hot rolled, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
37 AISI 1017 Steel, cold drawn
38 AISI 1017 Steel, hot rolled, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
39 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn
40 AISI 1018 Steel, hot rolled, quenched, and tempered
41 AISI 1018 Steel, hot rolled, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
42 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn, quenched, and tempered, 19-32 mm (0.75-1.25 in) round
43 AISI 1018 Steel, as cold drawn, 16-22 mm (0.625-0.875 in) round
44 AISI 1018 Steel, as cold drawn, 22-32 mm (0.875-1.25 in) round
45 AISI 1018 Steel, as cold drawn, 32-50 mm (1.25-2 in) round
46 AISI 1018 Steel, as cold drawn, 50-76 mm round
47 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn, high temperature, stress relieved, 16-22 mm (0.625-0.875 in) round
48 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn, high temperature, stress relieved, 22-32 mm (0.875-1.25 in) round
49 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn, high temperature, stress relieved, 32-50 mm (1.25-2 in) round
50 AISI 1018 Steel, cold drawn, high temperature, stress relieved, 50-76 mm round

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12/12/2005 10:09:50 PM

^ that pretty much covers it. I can tell you first hand the A10 is a royal PIA to cut and get any type of finish on. 403 stainless also sent me to therapy

12/12/2005 10:31:05 PM

Sorry, I meant quality in terms of strength.

And, I'm looking for something a little more layman. Thanks, tho.

12/12/2005 10:34:48 PM

Strength is all relavtive to application. Can you give some more details?

12/12/2005 10:44:49 PM

Knives.

12/12/2005 10:52:35 PM

AISI Type O7 Tool Steel

Material Notes:
General purpose, oil-hardening, nondeforming alloy tool steel suitable for applications where extreme dimensional accuracy is required. Applications include punches, dies, and knives where a keen cutting edge is required.

http://www.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=MSTO7A

12/12/2005 11:14:24 PM

for knives- High carbon- 1050, 1095, L6 sawmill blade steel, O-1, D-2, A-2
stainless- 154-cm, 440C, ATS-34, CPMS-30V

The list goes on of what you can make blades out of. those are some of the popular ones most custom makers are using these days

12/12/2005 11:26:30 PM

Haha, I didn't think of typing knife in there.

12/12/2005 11:28:41 PM

if you make knives, look at this http://www.anzaknives.com they use old files and do some heat treating to make the metal workable. the file marks make nice designs.

12/12/2005 11:30:10 PM

yeah, I've made them out of files like those anza's, but you have to find really old nicholson files to get good steel, and these new files just don't work as well.

12/12/2005 11:52:05 PM

chro-moly tubing?

12/13/2005 9:41:55 AM

For knives, premium steels are any of the Crusible Particle Metallurgy powdered steels (CPM S90V/S60V/S30V/440V/420V), VG-10, BG-42, 154-CM/ATS-34, D2, M2, 5160, 56100, A2... Fallkniven makes san mais of VG-10 sandwiched between 56100.

12/13/2005 5:48:59 PM

I'll look into fallkniven. Sound's like they make some tough shit,

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12/13/2005 8:02:32 PM

call herman blume

12/13/2005 8:04:30 PM

Call Crucible Steel in Charlotte. They are a big supplier of specialty die/tool steels. http://www.crucible.com. I built some tooling for my research here and they were pretty helpful. $50 minumum but they have a great selection. As far as the strength goes that has as much to do with the heat treatment as the type of steel you use. For example. A2 tool steel which I use for my dies from the mill can be machined easily. You can however harden it until you cannot scratch it with a icepick and hammer.

12/14/2005 5:17:07 PM

If you want some good steel then get some

HY 100 9/16" 22.75# steel

12/14/2005 5:54:48 PM

And, Joe I've no way to fashion the steel, so do they do such?

12/14/2005 6:04:41 PM

what do you want made?

12/14/2005 6:13:53 PM