Time to bust open this piece of automobile running gear and see it we can build a knife! firecreekforge.com Patreon: / firecreekforge #autoparts #knife #welding
I've wanted to take a couple of them apart with a hammer before when the two halves think they're one part. A bigger hammer usually solves that problem.
Dimitri Shevchenko is a bladesmith in Ukraine and does a lot of projects from different types of chain. He does incredible damascus patterns. Might be worth looking him up to see how he avoids occlusions. I don't think he makes canisters for the, so its probably a different technique. Cool change of pace video, beautiful pattern 🤝
I loved the disassembly portion of the video. I've been a mechanic for over 30 years and I can't tell you how many times I've felt like doing the same thing. Great pattern on the letter opener.
I really hope some of the newer guys to knifemaking that come across this video can take the real lesson from this video. Sure you can make a knife from recycled steel you can even make a really nice look knife from it but far more important when adversity rears its head you keep at it til you get where you want. Oftentimes when forging knives you come across obstacles and when they come up you keep pushing until you've overcome those obstacles. Thanks for sharing Elijah you did a great job and showed us your grit and determination.
A lot of things like shims and prop shafts are 1095, bearings are your 52100, gears can sometimes be 8160 or 4140- mid carbon, high impact steel, chains are sometimes 4140 or a 1070-1084 carbon steel. It various obviously and like any found steel there's bound to be some alloys or other weirdness thrown into the mix depending on the OEM. I think the chain with some higher nickel powdered steel might turn out really good too if you can get some.
The drum you cut apart is most likely cast iron or metal injection molded Ductile iron. The shafts are forged and case hardened 1050 or 1045 steel usually.
Definitely the best artisan use case for a crap t-case, other than busting them open for desk trinkets or recycling. Gears and bearing races are usually the safe bet or the shaft themselves. Chains can be 50/50, depending on the source manufacturer. I've got a few scrap-quality jet engine compressors that I've dedicated to using for various projects, as much as it pains me to hammering on them both from an engineering appreciation point, but moreso because they are so damn tough.
Well, you have good fire starter in that magnesium casing. Bushcrafters love that stuff. And yea if youre goin to do canister with chain, ya need that powdered steel for the voids to weld. Chain makes amazing looking pattern welded blades. Im not as proficient at it myself as id like to be eventually.
That doohickey is a transfer case. It bolts to the back of the transmission and splits power off and transfers it to both axles of the vehicle giving it four-wheel-drive. A torque converter goes in front of an automatic transmission and allows the engine to run with the vehicle stopped at a red light or whatever. It acts as a clutch between the engine and transmission.
I'm always interested in watching folks make blades out of mystery steel. Interesting experiment, but it reinforces my belief that my time is better spent with known steel. Thanks for sharing your process.
I wonder if you could drive a small round bar of steel in to the hollow part of the shaft you got from the transfer case and forge wield it into a solid bar then forge it in to a blade.
That powder makes all the difference. It’s nice to play around and try different things sometimes. I’ve been sitting on some chain and other stuff for a while, hoping to experiment with them. You could always San-Mai them with core steel of your choice. Great job, thanks for sharing
While this video is entertaining, I’m positive that process was agonizing lol. I’m amazed at what a pretty letter opener resulted, though! I hope you don’t feel like you have to put yourself through this again. You make some incredible knives from much easier material!
Junkyard steel series? Should be a good number of people who would watch since it's most common source of material for new smiths to play with and leaf springs aren't always available
Go for it! Most of the people experienced enough to do this are too stubborn to try, and the people adventurous enough to try are too inexperienced and under-tooled to do it. If you have PO box (or aren't too far from San Antonio) I have some unconventional canisters for canister Damascus that I'll give you
squaring dies. that chain will make a great looking knife but it has to be compressed on all sides. at least thats how i have done it before. its just my opinion though
I've wanted to take apart car parts with a big hammer so many times, but it makes it harder to put back together! 😂🤣 That transfer case didn't stand a chance.
well this is fun That chain looks like awesome stuff Do you have any use for thermite? For some reason I am really enjoying the hammer and dropping metal noises in this video....very satisfying noises that appeal some how some of those whacks with the sledgehammer sounded way cool. Sprocketmascus Now you can tell I comment as the video is ongoing lol and your fan sounds like an old biplane I like that, I think it was worth it...lot of work for a dagger type letter opener but still very cool . Great share thanksyou
@@FireCreekForge That's good to know. Newer auto parts are made out of all kinds of weird materials. Even if it is solid steel, it's probably not the kind that will forge weld. Probably better off at the scrap yard in this case.
@@FireCreekForge I kinda figured that. I actually first thought that maybe someone tried to get a lawsuit against you or RU-vid trying to say that watching damaged their eyes. Sad that's the world we live in but I've seen worse and things much more petty go through a court process.
If you don't what it is, how will you ever properly heat treat it.....???? are you just amusing it's 1095 1084 or whatever your powder mix is? even though it could be on your edge??
