Steffen Dahlberg Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) I've been asking myself what I would use to up the Ni in crucible steel if I wanted to make my own high contrast crucible steel damascus. I'd like something high in Nickel, and low in everything else, so I was looking at SAE 2515. In what kind of applications would this be found as scrap? Roller bearings? Other suggestions? I doubt I can find any FeNi or pure Ni locally. And I haven't been struck by any meteorites lately. We are the knights who say Ni! Edited December 7, 2013 by Steffen Dahlberg http://lumberjocks.com/Stefflus/projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg H. Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Locally might be a no-go, but samples of many pure ( 99% ) elements can be delivered to your door - http://element-collection.com/html/samples.html Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZebDeming Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Look at a welding shop, you can get almost pure nickel arc welding rods, for welding cast iron Zeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steffen Dahlberg Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Now there's a thought, thanks! http://lumberjocks.com/Stefflus/projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Martin Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 This guy has many types of metal, not sure about shipping out of the country. Welding rods are probably the best option. www.metalshipper.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn patterson Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Yeah, nickel is $19.99 per pound (99.9% pure) on J_Martins suggestion. You can use the Nickel coin although the purity is unknown to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerrr Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Yeah, nickel is $19.99 per pound (99.9% pure) on J_Martins suggestion. You can use the Nickel coin although the purity is unknown to me. US nickel coins are 75% copper 25% nickel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.H.Graham Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 +1 on the welding shops and supply, have all kinds of good stuff.... Randal www.rhgraham.simpl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Furrer Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 yes to the welding rod, but apparently Norway produces and exports nickel: http://www.ksip-hk.com/english/products_m2_a2.htm You may be very close to a refinery and not know it. A university casting lab may be of great use in the future..go make friends. Ric Richard Furrer Door County Forgeworks Sturgeon Bay, WI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis mcadams Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 I'm not looking to market for him but if you search for Kelly Cupples he has been a supplier of powdered metals including pure nickel. Having seen crucible made powdered form may be better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn patterson Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Im a welder and maybe rods are cheaper where you guys are but, the supplier we use is pretty damned pricey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Nickel is not cheap no matter how you find it. DO NOT use coins, the copper is not something you ever want in steel. Unless you're trying to make Cor-Ten, of course. It leads to serious intergranular cracking and embrittlement if not properly treated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Spall Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 is there a way to separate the copper from the nickel in coins? then you could use the nickel in steel and the copper for bronze? just curious. domum chalybs passio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerrr Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 IMHO separating the copper & nickel would be an interesting chemistry experiment, but probably not real practical I was thinking....if you find people who use nickel welding rods...they might have little leftover scraps that are useless to them but might work just fine for tossing into a crucible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Spall Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 After a bit of research i've found that it IS possible to separate the nickel from copper in nickels... with hydrocloric acid, boiling electricity, H2O2.... not worth it. But if you don't mind a bit of chrome, Nichrome may work for you. It's 80/20 Nickel/Chrome on average(some has iron in it). And it's easy to get. It's used as heating elements in toasters, dryers, space heaters etc It melts at around 2400-2500 F depending on the composition. domum chalybs passio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karter Schuster Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 With the amount of nickel in coins I would think it would be a waste of time and resources to attempt at extracting it from them. Go with just buying nickel lb. for lb. IMO it would be more worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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