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Shoutout to the old timer in Akron who got me to stop wasting coal on cold steel
I used to fire up the forge and start hammering the second the metal hit bright orange, and my welds kept coming apart at the seams. I fought this for almost 8 months, redoing a gate hinge three times and blaming my flux. An old smith at a hammer-in in Akron watched me for two minutes and said my steel was cold in the middle even when the outside looked right. He had me soak it at a dull red for a full 90 seconds longer and the weld stuck on the first try. I was so sure more heat meant better welds, but slow and even beats hot and fast every time. Now I keep a magnet on the anvil to check the temp before I ever touch the hammer. How do you all judge when your steel is truly ready to weld?
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