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Ken Williams
- Jan 1, 1970
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anyone know where I can buy soft iron rods in various sizes and shapes?
Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
thanks.
Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
thanks.
anyone know where I can buy soft iron rods in various sizes and shapes?
Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
Ken said:anyone know where I can buy soft iron rods in various sizes and shapes?
Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
thanks.
Michael said:is where you want to ask. You don't say
where you are located, whch makes a huge difference of where you can
find it.
Mark said:Sounds as if you are actually looking for magnetically soft iron rather than
mechanically soft iron (they are fairly closely related, but not an exact
match).
If it's for an AC application, take a hacksaw to a microwave oven transformer.
If it's a DC application, look for hot rolled, low carbon steel. probably
AISI 1005 will be as good as you can get. High silicon magnetic steels tend to
be fairly hard to obtain in small quantities and expensive except by robbing
existing equipment (like MOTranfromers).
Ken Williams said:What about pulsed DC? thats considered AC?
Its for electromagnet coils that will be pulsed with DC. I want a good
iron core to concentrate the magnetic flux.
Sounds as if you are actually looking for magnetically soft iron rather
than mechanically soft iron (they are fairly closely related, but not an
exact match).
If it's for an AC application, take a hacksaw to a microwave oven
transformer. If it's a DC application, look for hot rolled, low carbon
steel. probably AISI 1005 will be as good as you can get. High silicon
magnetic steels tend to be fairly hard to obtain in small quantities and
expensive except by robbing existing equipment (like MOTranfromers).
Mark Rand
RTFM
anyone know where I can buy soft iron rods in various sizes and shapes?
Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
thanks.
On 2009-06-28, Ken Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> anyone know where I can buy soft iron rods in various sizes and shapes?
> Seems to be a nightmare to find anything.
these days a good substitute is mild steel.
I'd try a hardware outlet, if they dodn't have what I wanted I'd go to
a metal supplier like "metalcorp"
steel tie wires are mild steel, fencing wire is not
many bolts are mild steel.
> thanks.