Can caste iron be bent?

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firefighterjake said:
Battenkiller said:
firefighterjake said:
Even the Man of Steel cannot bend cast iron . . . it will simply break in his grip.

C'mon... He could use his heat vision to get it bright cherry red, duh.

Ya know, I really am starting to sound like Pook.

Not even close . . . your thread would read more like this . . .

Cam On . . . Hes cud using heet vizon too getit brite chery reed, duh.

Yah knowz . . . Eye Relay m Staring sounz lik Pooook.

LOL
 
All depends if it's actually cast iron or forged and also the alloy.

I have had ok luck with welding cast iron before, and also had it where it wouldn't weld at all.

If whatever I was working on was trash and I was trying to maybe fix it by bending I would try, but I certainly wouldn't want to try on something that is still fine and make it trash!

woodmiser said:
If cast iron didn't bend than why are people replacing bent cast iron baffles?
 
Battenkiller said:
OK, OK... I just meant it's not alloyed with anything else. There is very little of anything else in it, though. Commercially pure is what I should have said. :roll: :lol:

I have some huge barn door hinges I'm saving for something ornate if I ever get good enough to forge anything ornate. I've never ever hit a piece of hot wrought iron, just telling tales as they were told to me. The stuff sucks for all I know.

Give it a try! It is nice stuff to forge and very easy to forge weld. Another thing is to etch the finished product in a mild acid (ferric chloride, vinegar, lemon juice etc.) and you will bring out the fibrous characteristics of the metal.
 
I've heard brazing can be used to repair cast iron.
 
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