Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
steel
geppetto
>Hello there, I not very often post on this forum but I need help about steel for infill plane.
Reading posts regarding these planes I learned that C1018 steel could be the right stuff. Here (in Italy) I'm not able to find such type. I found the type here is called FeB 44 K and has this composition:
% C max 0,22
% P max 0,050
% S max 0,050
% N max 0,12
Could be it a right steel to initiate without purchase on the web and pay a lot for ship?
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Gabriele
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Cameron
>Is this for the sides and sole of the plane? Why not just use mild steel flat bar, 1/8" to 1/4" thick? You don't need any special steels and it was good enough for Spiers and Norris.
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geppetto
>Hi Cameron,
yes, it's for the sole and sides.
Why do you say I'd use mild steel?.. a steel with 0.22% of carbon isn't called mild still?
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Cameron
>By this I mean just ordinary flat rolled bar from a hardware store or a steel stockist, rather than a specific grade of steel.
If you need tips for dovetailing there are a few websites about. There's a few good tips at http://www.handplane.com for instance.
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paul womack
>Jim Yehle's page with infill making info
BTW, does anyone know what happened to Mick Doherty's accumulation of infill from Badger Pond (an experiment in community building that had some DAMN fine woodworking information :-)
BugBear
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Ernie Miller
>You might check with Roger over at Traditional Tools. Is mick the one who was making the big book about making one? it seems I have the first 3-4 chapters printed out but then it stopped and I never got the entire thing.
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ThomD
>1018 is just basic mild steel. It's the stuff they use to make tubing, pipe, I beams etc... It isn't hardenable unless you use super quench, in other words it isn't a tool steel. The format you want is "cold rolled".
Mick Doherty where are you?
Steve Kubien
>Yup, Mick was doing some extensive infill work. Mining his iron ore, smelting, etc etc. He has been around here on the Island a few times. I believe he is doing some post-graduate work, bein' all edumacated and such. Scholarly-type stuff. Eeek! The infill work was taking a backseat while he finished up.
So Mick, are you Master Mick or Doctor Mick now? Give us an update.
Steve Kubien
Ajax, Ontario - who has a scholarly brother doing Phd work in Fredericton NB. Scary smart.
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Peter Berglund in Denver
>Well, from what I can glean from google, FeB 44k is an Italian rebar spec. It certainly sounds close enough to 1018, and I'd call it mild steel. But will you have to pound it flat to start the process of making a plane?
Also - any mechanical engineers among us? how ductile is rebar?
Peter
Re: Price
ThomD
>Another way of looking at it is price. If you get offered stuff than is anything more than rock bottom in price it probably isn't 1018, or your local equivalent. A piece 1/4 x 2" x 10" would cost about 2 bucks. I picked up a piece of 3/16 x 1.5 x 36" today out of the scrap bin, and they just gave it to me.