@Team_Metal_Shop @Team_Blacksmithing
I have multiple steel auto rotors that I’m getting ready to pitch. They certainly aren’t usable on a car but wondered if anyone had any use for them based on the metal. If so, let me know, I’m planning on coming out to DMS later this week and can drop them off wherever it makes sense.
Metal shop does not want them.
DMS doesn’t want used auto parts. We are not a junkyard. If we have a specific need we will ask.
No worries, I won’t bother to ask again. Off they go to the recycling salvage yard.
A rotor can be used as a fire pot for a homemade coal forge, but only if someone is currently planning to make one.
That being said, they’re not great forges and with the plasma cutter Available at DMS, one could fabricate a much better fire pot and forge.
I know coil springs can be desirable for blacksmithing projects. Are there other parts that blacksmithing has applications for?
Not generally off modern cars. Which are mostly aluminum.
Non cast, high carbon steel parts are desirable. Leaf springs, coil springs, gears, shafts, and axels. Axels used to be 4140. Modern cars have very few of these nowadays.
