High Carbon Steel Sheet

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Fri Nov 17, 2000 8:50 pm

Several people have posted several sources of high-carbon sheet steel in the last year. Unfortunately, I can't turn any up with the Search function. Several discussions, sure, but no sources mentioned.

Y'all wanna post em again, please? Thanks in advance!

-Patrick

Sinric · Post by **Sinric** » Fri Nov 17, 2000 9:25 pm

If you want to make heat treated armour I would recommend buying annealed 1050 or 1075 carbon steel (also known as spring steel). You can buy 1050 or 1075 from Admiral Steel http://www.admiralsteel.com/ . McMaster-Carr sells small sheets of annealed 1075 http://www.mcmaster.com/ .

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 17, 2000 9:49 pm

Sinric,

If you were going to make non-heat treated armour. What metal would you suggest?

Armour Guy · Post by **Armour Guy** » Sat Nov 18, 2000 12:59 am

Dane,

Depends on the amount of work/money you want to put in - Mild steel and stainless are obvious choices - Mild is easier to form, but less hard (dent resistant) than an equal gauge (tougher to form) stainless. IN addition, stainless is more expensive.

Neither can be heat-treated, but both can be work-hardened to an extent.

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Sinric · Post by **Sinric** » Sat Nov 18, 2000 2:12 pm

Dane,

Either 1050 (0.5% carbon) or 1075 (0.75% carbon) will work for most things. However, if you are going to be doing a lot of hot work on a plate like raising a helmet then you are going to lose some carbon content. In that case you may want to use 1075 instead of 1050.

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