Strostkovy
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2017
My parents have a wood stove that they light with one of those waxy fire bricks every cold morning. It's always a bit of a balancing act trying to get one corner of the starter up off of the base to have a surface to light with a match.
I was thinking that for a late father's day gift I would try and make a small stand out of a refractory metal that could hold these bricks while exposing the lower surface for easy lighting.
I understand that there are much easier ways to do this, and honestly it's such a minor problem we've never bothered trying to solve it, but I have an interest in these types of metals and it would be a neat gift regardless.
So my question is, how difficult is molybdenum to work with? I would likely be using 0.047" thick pure Mo sheet and would like to form it into a sort of box if possible. I would be using a 1/4" radius punch and probably 7/8" V die, with urethane die film, to a 135 degree obtuse angle. I am having a hard time finding a description of the brittleness of this metal.
Also, is this possible to plasma cut or shear, or what? I will be ordering a square of material large enough to do a few tests, but I would like to have some idea of what I am getting into if anybody has worked with this stuff.
I was thinking that for a late father's day gift I would try and make a small stand out of a refractory metal that could hold these bricks while exposing the lower surface for easy lighting.
I understand that there are much easier ways to do this, and honestly it's such a minor problem we've never bothered trying to solve it, but I have an interest in these types of metals and it would be a neat gift regardless.
So my question is, how difficult is molybdenum to work with? I would likely be using 0.047" thick pure Mo sheet and would like to form it into a sort of box if possible. I would be using a 1/4" radius punch and probably 7/8" V die, with urethane die film, to a 135 degree obtuse angle. I am having a hard time finding a description of the brittleness of this metal.
Also, is this possible to plasma cut or shear, or what? I will be ordering a square of material large enough to do a few tests, but I would like to have some idea of what I am getting into if anybody has worked with this stuff.