Mild steel bar

Key steel?

Tom

Try looking for water hardening (W1) tool steel. Works much like mil

steel in the unhardened state. In the US it's about $0.75 for a thre foot length in 1/16 square

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Welding rod might also be an option

Joules

Sorry, I should learn to read.... "Square Rod"

Try 1/8 square and plane it down?

thats one hell of a plane you got if you can plane mild steel with it... surely tou mean mill?

Hi Dave. You could try

I have a modest stock of 1/16" square Silver Steel. how much do you need?

ChrisH

Presumably you don't need long lengths. How about slicing it off some 16 swg sheet with a fine slitting saw in a mill? I've done this with brass and it works well.

Rather shows you lack of practical experience. Bit like the 259 problem.

Have you ever actually done any model engineering?

I have some 1/8" BMS that I could use, however, having been apprentice trained in engineering, I know what would happen.

BMS is drawn cold. This sets up stresses in the material. Machine one side and you relieve the stress. The other side, still under stress will now try and relieve itself and guess what?

(During my apprenticeship, this was demonstrated with a practical exercise, making a U shape out from solid, for a pipe clamp, many of the trainees who didn't relieve the stresses properly had problems.)

The only way to get truly parallel material from doing this would be to do both sides simultaneously and in even quantity. (Surface Grinding may be a possibility). I would rather exhaust other options before I even attempt to go there.

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Just thinking out loud really, is there a process or part that uses this material that you could get into and blag some material?

Sometimes it's the only way to get something that appears to be non-available but you're sure you've 'seen it somewhere' !

I checked on RS Comp's and our local key steel stockists, the only one I didn't check but have done now was Macreadys, and they have only 1/16" in Silver Steel rounds, only 1/8" in squares unfortunately.

Peter

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Don't know the quantities but postage from the US is not bad.. You could try this outfit, has a lot of goodies that would interest modellers:

Tom

Then take it up to red heat and let it cool before you mill it.

In your case, Mr.Stevenson's Newsblock seems to be malfunctioning.

Hi Chris,

I was thinking about 3ft originally. I think I need about 24". It will be cut into 4 pieces of approx 6" each. It will then be silver soldered togethor.

It probably doesn't have to be exactly 1/16", I was thinking anywhere between about 1.5mm and 2mm would be OK.

If you do have any, that would be great, if not, then I will look at some of the other suggestions here.

Best regards, Dave Colliver. ~~ Customise your internet experience

J&L carry 1/16" key steel in 12" lengths. Part no# SKS-20116B £2.20 each.

Tel: 0800 663355

-- Regards,

John Stevenson Nottingham, England.

They are also running a 25% discount offer which I think closes 9/9/04!

Steve