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When choosing between timber or steel frames and trusses for your kit home, there are several considerations to keep in mind. These considerations involve many factors such as the location of your kit home, the exposure to certain environmental and climatic conditions, and your budget. But whether you choose timber or steel, you can be assured you are buying a quality home to meet your family needs.
Don't Pester Me
Choosing between timber or steel frames sometimes comes down to considering the pests where you will be building. Termite damage in Australian homes costs home owners millions of dollars every year in repairs. A steel framed and trussed kit home provides extra protection against termites. There's not a termite in the world that can eat its way through steel! If you live in an area with termites, steel is the best choice for your home construction.
It should be mentioned that the framing for wood and steel is very similar. The differences are quite few. Steel doesn't have to settle like wood. That means steel framing is ideal for locations where there is a lot of moisture. Unlike wood, steel will not expand and contract when exposed to different moisture amounts in the air. Though the wood used in kit homes is of high quality and always properly treated and sealed, wood is sensitive to moisture. A steel frame never has the possibility of warping, shrinking, splitting or twisting due to moisture.
I Can Handle That
Many people choose to build their own kit homes in order to reduce labour costs. Steel frames are already punch holed, weigh less and do not need to be chemically treated like wood. Owners who decide to build their own kit homes find these features important, because they make the job simpler all around.
One of the big advantages of steel construction is the fact steel beams are not as heavy as wood timbers. Yet steel is stronger than wood even though it weighs less. When you live in an area with high winds, steel framing and trusses provide extra protection against the weather.
Steel is also recommended for areas which are subject to frequent wild fires or are built in areas where the fire threat is high. A wood home is much more likely to catch on fire quickly, and once on fire, the damage is extensive. Steel framed home are better able to withstand fire threats and will sustain less damage than wood framed homes.
Another reason why steel frames and trusses may be desirable over wood in a particular home is the fact steel can span a longer distance than wood. When you custom design your home as an open floor plan, you may need to choose steel over wood to meet construction standards.
Don't Forget Wood
Despite all the advantages of using steel for framing and trusses, houses built with wood have pluses also. Wood costs less than steel so when termites or extreme weather are not problems, wood is a good choice. Wood is a versatile material for construction purposes also. You can easily adapt design any floor plan or house style using wood.
Choosing between timber or steel frames and trusses for your kit home requires an evaluation of the environmental features of the area in which you will be building. But the one thing you can be sure of.....the steel and wood kit home will be well built and enduring.
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Damascus Steel – the High Tech Weapon of the 12th Century
Damascus Steel is a broad category of metallurgical techniques used to make higher technology knives and sword blades in the 12th through 18th centuries. Prior to the Bessemer process which allows steel to be made in large quantities with exact control over the amount of carbon in the mix, steel was made in an artisanal method – it was made in small batches, and making a batch large enough to make a sword was a technical challenge.
Steel is iron with carbon impurities; the best time to mix in the carbon impurities is when the steel is hot. The archetypal image of a blacksmith striking sparks from a red hot steel blade that we see in movies and popular culture stems from needing to distribute the carbon (from coke or charcoal) through the blade. You'd hammer the steel while it's glowing hot, turn the blade over, hammer it again, and reheat. The aim of doing this was to make sure that the carbon granules were broken to the right size in the alloy. (Modern steel making allows much greater precision than merely hammering the nodules out). The more carbon there is in the steel, the harder it is, and the more rigid the steel is.
Damascus steel, in spite of the mythologies that have built up around it, was simply a technique of taking high carbon steel ingots (usually "wootz" steel imported from India), hammering or drawing them flat, and then putting a layer of charcoal over them, then a layer of higher nickel alloy steel over it (nickel keeps steel flexible), then hammering them together, often times trying to fold the steel back so that there's a pattern of high carbon steel (providing rigidity) and softer nickel steel (maintaining flexibility and the softness needed to sharpen the weapon with period tools).
Damascus steel shows a distinctive pattern – the high carbon steel is darker than the nickel steel, and there's a pattern of cells that can look almost like snakeskin or running water through the blade, as the hot blade is quenches in pickling brine. (This brine will tarnish the high carbon steel before the nickel steel). Similar patterns can be found in pattern-welded steel swords from Northern Europe and the "folded steel" swords of the Japanese, both of which have been mythologized (as has Damascus steel) into weapons that can cut rock, bodies and machine gun barrels.
Damascus steel fell out of fashion for two reasons. The first is that it's incredibly labor intensive to make, and the second was that with the Bessemer process, modern steelmaking allowed for comparable steels at a fraction of the cost. Indeed, the leaf springs in a typical automobile or light truck can be ground down to make better swords than ever existed in antiquity in terms of quality and ability to hold an edge.
To look at a selection of Damascus Steel knife blades visit our Damascus Steel Pocket Knives page.
About the Author
Kirk McCormick has over 20 years experience in law enforcement and has enjoyed the outdoors for over 40 years. He writes on a variety of knife related topics. You can contact him through: www.NorthAmericanKnives.com; www.SwissArmyKnifeMall.com or www.PocketKnivesMall.com
What material is better quality for a knife set: forged high carbon steel or stainless steel?
I am comparing an Anolon set to a JA Henckels International. Are both materials dishwasher safe? Which is most rust resistant and longer lasting?
Neither of these makers mention exactly what grade of steel they use for their knives, so I can't say anything as to their quality and performance. Good quality Knives should always be handwashed. If you handwash and store your knives in a knife block, rust shouldn't be a big issue.
How long a knife lasts depends on quite a few different factors, but mostly on how often you use it or abuse it. An everyday kitchen knife may need to be sharpened every year or so.
I recommend having your knives sharpened by a professional. There are a lot of "sharpen at home" gadgets out there-most of them make it easy to permanently mangle your cutting edge and you'd end up having to take it to the pros anyway to be reground. Sharpening by hand requires a lot of skill, precision, and experience.
I actually prefer ceramic knives over steel. They're about twice as expensive but they stay razor sharp for years.
EU steel makers demand probe into high iron prices
European steel makers on Wednesday demanded an EU antitrust probe to check for monopoly abuse and cartel-type behaviour by the three major iron ore suppliers Vale, BHP Billiton Ltd and Rio Tinto after price increases of more than 80 per cent.
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