Subject: 4140 tool steel

From: Steve Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 9:31:09 MST

Is 4140 useful to blacksmiths? I can't find any info on it at home;
there's an auction tomorrow of a metal fab shop...

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Steve Smith
Loveland, Colorado

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From: [email-masked] (Clay Spencer)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 23:27:37 -0500

At 9:31 AM 4/4/96, Steve Smith wrote:
>Is 4140 useful to blacksmiths?
If I remember correctly, Robb Gunter uses 4140 and 4340 for tools. One or
the other of them is used for truck axles. They make good hardies, bicks,
hammers, drifts and other top and bottom tools.
Load up on it.
Clay

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From: [email-masked] (MikeWolfe)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 23:17 WET

4140 makes great dies for the power hammer.
m wolfe

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:09:13 -0500 (EST)

>there's an auction tomorrow of a metal fab shop...
Steve We had a meeting on tool steels and I can't find my stuff, but!!!

Mark McFee of A.T.S. Steels, Inc.  gave the workshop.  they have branches in
MN and AZ Their # is 800-328-0432

I'll bet if you sound interested you could find out not only how to use it
bu how much not to pay

Gene

 The Studios of Gene Olson and Chris Wilson - Working in Metals, Stone,
Mixed Media
    8600 NE O'Dean Ave, Elk River MN 55330
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