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Greetings once again! I am still planning on having the spring steel and spring stainless steel lamellar plates available by the middle/end of January. I decided to start with both instead of one and then adding the other.

The spring steel plates are 0.031" thick 1075 blue tempered steel. They will end up being $.80 per plate.

The spring stainless steel plates are 0.031" thick 301 full hard. Their price will be $.95 per plate.

I originally looked at 410 tempered stainless steel in 0.025" thick, but the price is actually higher. Comparing the two, 410 tempered does have slightly higher tensile and yield strength (200000 and 180000 respectively) compared to 301 full hard (185000 and 140000 respectively), but at that range the difference wasn't worth the price change. To give an idea for comparison, tensile and yield strength for 304 stainless is 75000 and 31200, while 6061 t6 alumium is 42000 and 35000.

For now, the bulk pricing does not include these materials.

I probably won't be keeping an inventory of these plates, but cutting them as they are ordered. Delivery time for now is estimated at two weeks from ordering, once I have material. Before I make my initial material order, I want to find out who is definately (or nearly so) planning on ordering either of these. Please PM or email me ( jamie at polarbearforge.com ) with the type of steel, the plate type, and the number. The plate styles can be found at http://www.polarbearforge.com/lamellar.htm and I can makes changes if there's something close, but not quite what you're looking for.


Jamie

A followup with a few questions I was asked.

I will not form these. They don't need it and it would very rough on my tools.

The appearance of the spring stainless(301) should really be no different than the regular stainless, but I'll have to verify that first.

The spring steel (1075) will be the blue/black at first and at request, once I get my tumbling setup finished.

Jamie

A bump to the top. I haven't had the definate interest that I thought there would be so far, and may have to delay this a month or so until I have a few more orders. If you are definately planning on ordering (or nearly so) in the next couple monthes, please let me know. Thanks!

Jamie

I plan on getting some, but likely middle of the year.

I will like to get some scales probaly around 200 at the end of January, begining of Febuary. I need to find out how many I need per square feet for the project I have in mind.

Sextus I got my scales from Polar a few months back..I got aluminum and acid treated them with Ferric Chloride...I am going to be mounting them this next weekend hopefully. I can't say enough good things about doing buisness with him.
Marius

I already made a scale shirt out of 410, but I would like to have more for another project as well and maybe redo my present scale shirt a little differently when the backing goes out in a couple of years.

I'm in for a few hundred spring steel. Have cash now lol! Keep us updated.
Os

pointed my wife at this last night, looks like she'll be making another lamellar vest.

A quick update. The material is ordered and they tell me it will ship the 28th. I don't know if they are good at estimating their ship dates (new vendor for me) so I don't know if they'll be early or late. I'll update this thread when the material gets here.

Jamie

Jamie, looking at some matweb type stuff.

Is the 301 this material here:

http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=960


JP

Yep, full hard condition.

Jamie

Not sure if it helps but there is a bulk supplier for decent sized drops its 201 stainless.
I have no idea if its any cheaper then your current supplier after shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SKID-OF-20ga-036-20 ... 359e1cda63

Losthelm, thanks for the link. I checked with them, and it turns out it's not 201, and it's annealed. It's similar to the stainless I offer now, so in the grand scheme of things, it wouldn't be worth it.

Jamie

The material is in and I'm ready to cut it. The spring steel (1075) is a bluish-greenish tint from the heat treat process. The finish of the spring stainless is about the same as the regular stainless lamellar I make

If you're ready for it, I'm ready to cut it! Just drop me an email at jamie(at symbol)polarbearforge.com and let me know which style you want.

Jamie

I'm ready!


Do you have my order?