Subject: Low C iron (was Nails)

From: Mike Linn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 16:42 EST

At 08:30 PM 3/29/96 -0500, you wrote:

>As I am in the specialty steel business I would offer to contact the three
>mills in the U.S. who once made this product,  and maybe Ralph Snel or Niko
>could check out "Sandvick Steel of Sweden", the other (one time) producer.
>I'm sure that the logistics of buying, funding and then distributing would be
>insanity, but I can assure you that if we could do it, that we'd do it again
>- it's that good!
>Your thoughts,
>Mike Schermerhorn 
>

        I read somewhere in a US Steel Publication that they are or will be
making ultra low carbon steel at the Fairfield Works, somewhere on the order
of .03% carbon. I'll try to find out more about this but someone who has
close ties to USX might be able to get better info.

mike
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From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:55:03 -0500

Another thought on this subject:  There was (in the thirties - forties) an
outfit that made real WROUGHT IRON out in Pittsburgh.  (I could look up the
name, but that means getting up & I wore myself out cutting wood this
morning.)  Is there any source of wrought iron today?
Bruce

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From: [email-masked] (W Thomas Powers)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:07:53 -0500

>morning.)  Is there any source of wrought iron today?

Well I scrounge it fairly easily however the lowest quality grades seem to
be the easiest to identify by eye.  Picked up 1"x10' round out of a creek
below an old RR bridge recently.

One source is Keith F. Sommer, RT 1, 3096-A, RD Q, Pandora, Ohio; 45877
419-384-3412.  He has wrought from an old bridge, some 1"x3" (?) flat and
some 1" round (?).  The round is better quality than the flat---Tension
member.

What I am looking into is that they are planning to tear down the old
Ohio State Penitentiary out here in Columbus. Parts of it date back to
pre 1860.....lots of wrought in there!  I hope to get them to "donate"
a bunch to the local historical village blacksmith shop.  Perhaps others
are interested too and we should make a formal proposal to them for
the wrought?  They are taking some flack on tearing it down and could
use some good PR....

Thomas who just heard that we will be making iron again this summer in camp!
Columbus, Ohio

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:03:05 -0500 (EST)

>>>Bridges good point, they are tearing down the old wabasha srteet bridge
in St. Paul, MN bet there's lots of wrought in that.

Gene 

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From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:48:31 -0500

>the wrought?  They are taking some flack on tearing it down and could

Why not try offering a little more than scrap iron prices and good publicity
to boot?  They make a "profit" in two ways.
BF

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From: [email-masked] (W Thomas Powers)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:12:29 -0500

>to boot?  They make a "profit" in two ways.

Well Bruce; its like this I live smack dab in the middle of the city in
a residential area that was pretty spiff around 90 years ago.  Nowdays
its a bit tired. (I'm hoping that the hoity-toity historical district will
move my way and raise the values enough that I can escape to the country
and build Swamp Castle.)  Anyway I'm taking a lot of flack already with my
scrap pile and coal smoke and I have most of my scrap shoehorned into the 
shop with me.  Also I run this hobby at loss and can't afford to front 
enough $ to make it worth their while as a business prop. (I tend to think
that if they found out that the stuff had *value* they would want to weigh
it out by the gram!  They were charging for the rock in the Penn wall that
collapsed and burried a couple of cars a while back!)

Thomas