The Armour Archive

I cant get hold of spring steel, nor do I have anywhere to heat treat them. Is there anywhere I can purchase them heat treated and all?


Thanks, Kersme.

Go to a home improvement store or lumber yard and get some steel pallet banding. They throw it away after they unpack the skids of merchandise. It's usually 3/4" wide, but i've also picked up some wider stuff that was 1" or 1 1/4" from Home Depot. It was used on the skids of chain link fence posts.

I have a boat load of spring steel banding used on industrial shipments of steel beams. I will measure it but I believe it is 2" wide and hard as nails.

Tell me what lengths you want and you can have it for cost of shipping- I probably have 100' of it in the scap bin.

~Kevin

WaaaghBoss wrote:I have a boat load of spring steel banding used on industrial shipments of steel beams. I will measure it but I believe it is 2" wide and hard as nails.

Tell me what lengths you want and you can have it for cost of shipping- I probably have 100' of it in the scap bin.

~Kevin

How thick is it?

Thanks, Kersme

You can get decent galvanized strapping thats between 22 and 23 gauge I believe at Lowes that is like 1 1/4" or 1 1/2" Its high tensile as it is used to strap mobile homes to the ground.

Thanks everybody, but I did say I can't get hold of spring steel myself. So you suggesting where I can find it doesnt help.


Kersme

pallet banding is maybe thick enough for lamellar or small brigandine plates but I wouldn't recomend it for splinted limbs for SCA combat or similar. For that I would recomend Stonekeep who probably has them on the shelf already heat-treated for you.

Sean

Kevin,
I will take some of the banding if you can fit into the box with the 14 gauge scrap pieces.

PM sent

I will check the thickness of the banding I have, but it is much much thicker than normal banding. This stuff is used to strap steel beams together for semi truck shipment from the mills. Many of these beams weigh several tons each. On a glance I believe it to be about 16 or 18 ga and about 2" wide. It would make great lammelar and probably splints if used on thicker leather or with medium leather layered on both sides.

We process about 30 inbound trucks of steel a day so I have tons of this stuff and get more every day. It goes into the scrap dumpster.

I'll guage it out and measure it tomorrow on lunch (I have plans today for lunch and no time to go out to the warehouse today).

Garreth- will do- I can throw in a dozen or so 12" sections for you.
I'll have the shipping quote for the 14ga this weekend.

~Kevin

WaaaghBoss wrote:We process about 30 inbound trucks of steel a day so I have tons of this stuff and get more every day. It goes into the scrap dumpster.

Dammit, man...where were you when I tried to offload all those 40K orks?!

LOL-

I don't need any more greenskins. I can field about 10K points (been playing WH40K since the mid 80's!!!).

That said, I'm always up for trades!

Try stonekeep. He makes spring steel splinted arms and legs.

http://www.stonekeep.net/scagearandar.html

WaaaghBoss wrote: (been playing WH40K since the mid 80's!!!).

Yeah, I remember you from DakkaDakka and other places, back in ze day.

If I find more schtuff I missed, I'll hit you up for trades.

Saritor wrote:

WaaaghBoss wrote: (been playing WH40K since the mid 80's!!!).

Yeah, I remember you from DakkaDakka and other places, back in ze day.

If I find more schtuff I missed, I'll hit you up for trades.

I really miss playing 40K- my son is 3 YO now and I have only played a couple times since he was born. Kind of like making armour- I just don't have the time any more.

I look forward to when my son is old enough to swing a hammer and roll some dice!