To: irishtenor
What do you think they use to melt steel in the foundry’s?
BTW - if I recall steel looses 70-80 percent of its strength after 30 minutes at about 3,000 degrees.
It’s melting!
27 posted on
04/30/2007 1:28:15 PM PDT by
stockpirate
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To: stockpirate
FYI, I have 34 years of machine shop experience. I KNOW what fire does to steel. And aluminum, titanium, brass, magnesium, etc.
46 posted on
04/30/2007 1:40:12 PM PDT by
irishtenor
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To: stockpirate
Plain Carbon Steel loses essentially all of its strength at temperatures over 1400 degrees F. (This depends on the amount of carbon) . It transforms to a solid called Austenite which has consistency of stiff butter. However the strength of the material is decreasing all of the way up to this temperature. By 1000 degrees, it may only be 40% or less of the strength at room temperature. We are going for vapor at 3000 degrees.
120 posted on
04/30/2007 3:07:36 PM PDT by
dalight
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