Forging AEROSPACE STEEL??

[Music] ugh [Music] so here it is [Music] that's for later welcome here to the blacksmith it's so great to have you here today because we're going to be playing around with this piece of steel it's mar aging steel it's an ultra high strength steel typically used in aerospace not exclusively to that industry it's also interesting about this is it has an absolute ridiculously high melting point just over 4 600 degrees fahrenheit steel typically melts at 2800 degrees fahrenheit some of the common uses are missile and rocket skins landing gear firing pins for automatic guns i think that's because of the stability of it from going from cold to hot the heat cycles it doesn't expand or change much so i've never heard of anybody forging this especially not in like a blacksmithing shop scenario so i thought it would be pretty cool today to stick some of this in the forge heat it up see how it reacts to hand hammering under the power hammer see how it performs one of the great characteristics of it is it's not supposed to crack or fracture so i feel like we should be pretty good in that sense just the ridiculous high melting point will be really interesting to see if that affects temperature forging i'm going to use the propane forge max that thing only goes up is to 2800 degrees fahrenheit if this works out i've got a couple projects that i'm hoping we can use this in but for now let's jump over to the forge get it heating up cut a piece of this off and get it going see what happens here we go [Music] so just while the forge is heating up i just wanted to quickly thank sac and metals for sponsoring this video by providing the materials they actually sent me a couple other materials which i'm super excited about that's going to be for a later video but if you're looking for some of these uh exotic materials like titanium etc make sure to check them out they have a great website great service i'll put the link down below so you can find them and again thank you sac and metals for helping me out super appreciate it so i'm going to take this more aging steel now quickly to the band saw see how it cuts cut a chunk off [Music] all right here we come from the forge i forgot to say that the weight of this stuff it it doesn't feel any different than regular steel just kind of filling this out here and see how it feels surprised to see that much scale actually looks like a normal piece here that feels feels pretty normal all right let's step it up again let's head over to the power hammer okay so as the first heat under the power hammer if i didn't know this was more aging steel i wouldn't be able to tell a little bit of scale not a lot and um it just feels like it's cold it's a little bit harder to hit or harder for it to move so uh looks like everything forges really really good see anything to be scared about so i'm gonna stick it back at the forge and we're gonna go do some power hammer shredding on this i will see you after that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so so so so here's the piece cooled off obviously this might just be a blacksmith's favorite material to work because there's no well hardly any scale and then the other thing is you can heat the living daylights out of it and it doesn't melt on you i had it this thin in the forge probably at least five times and just walked away from it this would steal i would have lost it five times super smooth texture this would be really fun to try making some tools out of it might not be the great steel for that in the sense of um how it would hold up tools but the surface would be so cool because it'd be so clean i'm going to jump to the bandsaw now we're going to start cutting this up and then to the milling machine to do a little bit of machining on this see how that all goes [Music] uh [Music] is [Applause] [Music] i'm just finishing up last pass stuff machine's super nice absolutely no problem it's really good just finish this up here we'll take it out go to the table i'll show you what's going on what a lot of work for these parts hey turned out great really happy with how this is uh forged and machined and if you're like uh tim uh what are you making or where are you going with that well that will have to be a surprise for the next video i know that if you've been around the blacksmithing community for any time you can start to figure out where i'm going with that i need your help here's the deal i'm trying to get to a hundred thousand subscribers by the end of this year 2020 but i cannot do it without your help so if you've liked this video i would love it if you would subscribe to the channel what i always say is grab your favorite hammer hit that like button grab an even bigger hammer and smash that subscriber button but truth be told i've been causing some trouble for you guys because you're like tim i'm watching my video on my phone and then when i grab my sledgehammer and smash it it doesn't work so i'm going to show you how this works you take your phone like this grab your favorite hammer and you just smash it just like that and that's how you do it thank you for subscribing we'll see the next video still works still works don't worry i just ticked the edge of it for dramatic reasons only let's not do that again so i actually wasn't supposed to hit my phone i'm supposed to hit right in front of just ticked the edge i didn't get the glass but i got the aluminum case and there's this burr so i'm actually just going to file it off with the file here if i got any closer i would have actually completely lost my phone i'm just trying to get the subs you know trying to get the subs typical timmy gets way too excited all right folks there we go all right good show good show

Channel: Timothy Dyck

Views: 221,799

Keywords: aerospace, material, maraging steel, forging, blacksmithing, metalwork

Id: RnmH0_yI8a8

Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 26 2020