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Posted by Ignoramus30765 on April 27, 2008, 11:54 pm
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Brought home a few punch blanks, or raw materials, which are little
round things the size of various rifle cartridges. They are made from
some wonder steel, as I discovered when I tried putting one in a
press, against a mild steel washer. The washer was fully defeated by
the punch blank.
http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks.jpg
According to the factory manager, this is A2 or D2 steel.
I used one piece as a male brake die, but don't know what useful
things one could do with these little ones. An awl comes to mind
first.
I would hate to get rid of them and need one later. So... Any ideas?
They are supposedly hard to machine.
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Posted by Ignoramus30765 on April 28, 2008, 12:22 am
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I tried sharpening one pin to the shape of a chisel, and pushed it
through a piece of mild steel with a press. The result amazed me.
It cuts through steel like knife through butter.
http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks-1874.jpg
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> Brought home a few punch blanks, or raw materials, which are little
> round things the size of various rifle cartridges. They are made from
> some wonder steel, as I discovered when I tried putting one in a
> press, against a mild steel washer. The washer was fully defeated by
> the punch blank.
>
> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks.jpg
>
> According to the factory manager, this is A2 or D2 steel.
>
> I used one piece as a male brake die, but don't know what useful
> things one could do with these little ones. An awl comes to mind
> first.
>
> I would hate to get rid of them and need one later. So... Any ideas?
>
> They are supposedly hard to machine.
>
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Posted by Bruce in Bangkok on April 28, 2008, 5:09 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:54:16 -0500, Ignoramus30765
>Brought home a few punch blanks, or raw materials, which are little
>round things the size of various rifle cartridges. They are made from
>some wonder steel, as I discovered when I tried putting one in a
>press, against a mild steel washer. The washer was fully defeated by
>the punch blank.
>
> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks.jpg
>
>According to the factory manager, this is A2 or D2 steel.
>
>I used one piece as a male brake die, but don't know what useful
>things one could do with these little ones. An awl comes to mind
>first.
>
>I would hate to get rid of them and need one later. So... Any ideas?
>
>They are supposedly hard to machine.
They are essentially round HSS tool bits. Grind a flat on one and it
will make a nice insert for a boring bar. You can silver solder one to
a shank and make a special tool. Any that are ground to a "normal
diameter" .250, .375, .500, etc. make nice aligning pins or gages for
setting tooling.
A lot of uses. If I were in your vicinity I'd stop by and pick them up
just to get them out of your garage so you'd have more space in there
:-)
Bruce-in-Bangkok
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Posted by Larry Jaques on April 28, 2008, 8:04 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:54:16 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
>Brought home a few punch blanks, or raw materials, which are little
>round things the size of various rifle cartridges. They are made from
>some wonder steel, as I discovered when I tried putting one in a
>press, against a mild steel washer. The washer was fully defeated by
>the punch blank.
>
> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks.jpg
>
>According to the factory manager, this is A2 or D2 steel.
>
>I used one piece as a male brake die, but don't know what useful
>things one could do with these little ones. An awl comes to mind
>first.
>
>I would hate to get rid of them and need one later. So... Any ideas?
>
>They are supposedly hard to machine.
Hey, it's tool steel. Make more tools from them. Punches (duh!),
chisels, alignment pins, dowels, coat racks <giggle>, etc.
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As a curmudgeon, I grok that in its entirety.
--LJ
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Posted by Ignoramus18948 on April 28, 2008, 5:33 pm
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> Hey, it's tool steel. Make more tools from them. Punches (duh!),
> chisels, alignment pins, dowels, coat racks <giggle>, etc.
>
I will make an awl out of one of them. Also will try to make a chisel
style bit to cut steel bars with my press.
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> round things the size of various rifle cartridges. They are made from
> some wonder steel, as I discovered when I tried putting one in a
> press, against a mild steel washer. The washer was fully defeated by
> the punch blank.
>
> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Punch-Blanks.jpg
>
> According to the factory manager, this is A2 or D2 steel.
>
> I used one piece as a male brake die, but don't know what useful
> things one could do with these little ones. An awl comes to mind
> first.
>
> I would hate to get rid of them and need one later. So... Any ideas?
>
> They are supposedly hard to machine.
>