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Old 01-27-2017, 06:00 AM
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That's pretty much why I grabbed rebar. Yeah, it's a crap shoot at best as far as consistent quality goes, but seems to have just enough "integrity" to work for tossers. No expense other than the forging fuel and time (which is quite minimal).
I did get lucky and picked up some old school rebar from a bridge footing being demolished that was dated 1912. Little odd looking but turned out to be reasonably predictable as far a consistent quality goes. Made a lot of tossers out of it and it hardened up quite similar to 5160....go figure. I'm thinking 1040-1050 range from quench-break-spark testing. A "super quench" actually made it quite brittle, but a little grainy. Never could find the magic spot for good grain refinement (may not be one).


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