Well, I thought I was going to make make a swing set from that 1″ round bar I found but when I was able to bend the bar by hand I realised something. So when I dragged the two lengths of this stuff out, I found that they were 6m lengths, and so would make better legs, so since I was holding the V shaped bit, I thought I’d just see if I could open up the acute angle to be a right angle, without using heat. To my surprise I was able just bend it, but as it bent I could feel the metal cracking and breaking, so I kept bending until it broke. I then inspected the break and found that it wasn’t steel at all, or at least wasn’t a grade of steel that I wanted to work with. I actually just asked some friends what they thought this metal was, I suspected it was something of an iron like material, turns out they were right with wrought iron.
I have no idea what I’ll do with this stuff now. I don’t believe it’s weldable and it’s pretty soft and mailable, plus very heavy.
On the up side, I found these two nice brackets, which are clearly forged nicely from good quality metal as they’re barely rusted, just surface rust.
Not sure what I’m going to use them for, might clean them and paint them.
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