S7 question

Hello all,

I have been racking my brain for about a week and a half, trying to think of the alternate designation for S7 steel I *thought* I had heard of and recognized.

Anyone know if the stuff has another name? It seems as though there's a more common ASNI designation that would make it easier to find, but I could be just misremembering.

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Prometheus
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What are you making with S7 ?

I buy rod at MSC.

Martin

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Prometheus wrote:

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Martin H. Eastburn

I'm not him, but I use it for hot work chisels. Holds a real good edge when chiseling in red to orange hot steel. What do you use it for? My other 3 hot work steels would be Atlantic 33, S1 and H13.

Pete Stanaitis

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Mart> What are you making with S7 ?

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spaco

Hot work tools- I need basically all of them. The S7 is on Pete's advice. I figure a bar of 1.5" x 36" round will make me a number of useful hardie tools (I have a small anvil, so there's no need for larger than that, I figure), and a thinner bar will work well for a handful of punches and chisels. The larger diameter will be for a bick, a hot cut, a bottom fuller, and some various other useful shapes for hammering things on.

I did note that there is a tool steel other than S7 that is specifically for hot work, but the literature I looked at indicated that S7 works like mild steel, which sounds good to me after discovering how much work it is to forge 1095.

I got a quote from Cincinnati tool steel that was very reasonable for the stuff today. Finding as S7 isn't a problem, it's just been bothering me that I thought I was familiar with the stuff under a different name, and I can't remember what it was. Whatever it was called, it was from Jorgenson steel. Nearest I can remember, it may have been just a similar alloy that was named for it's component metals like Chro-Moly followed by a numerical code.

Doesn't really matter, it just keeps popping into my head like a bad tune.

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Prometheus

I use it too, for chisels and drifts. One word of caution though, if the metal gets too hot it will harden and become quite brittle. I had 1 inch drift blow up on me under a 16lb sledge. The top section shot off and banged around the shop for while and came to rest under a striker team working at the next forging station. Cool but kind of scary.

I havent had luck annealing it either so cutting after it has been forged can be a bit of a pain if accidental hardening happens. Any advice on "real" (blacksmith heat treating not heat treaters heat treating) heat treating of S-7 would be very much appreciated.

Andrew Molinaro

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This isn't a direct answer to your question, but a few years ago I "tested" my ash bucket because I kept hearing about putting your part to be annealed in there to soften. Ashes ain't the answer for anything but the simplest carbon steel in my opinion.

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'sAshBucketAnneal.gif The best idea I've ever heard for annealing something like S7 was to "build a big fire in the "Round Oak Heater", throw in your parts, fill the stove with wood and shut off the draft. Never tried it, but sounds plausible.

Pete Stanaitis

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Andrew Mol> I use it too, for chisels and drifts. One word of caution though, if the

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