Spartan soldiers returning from battle were greeted with a cup of wine with a rusty nail in it.

[domestinatrix]

Torrey says:
okey doke
hey, if Elana wanted to make a swizzle stick so that it would rust into her drink, what kind of steel would we make it out of? hot roll or cold roll?

Dietrich says:
hmmm
I'd say.. spend the little bit extera and go for 1018.. so you have a better chance of knowing what is in it..

Torrey says:
I thought 1018 was stainless?
We need rust.

Dietrich says:
nope..
10XX (simple carbon steel.. no other real alloying components)
.18 percent carbon

Torrey says:
oh, OK.

Dietrich says:
http://www.onlinemetals.com/steelguide.cfm

Torrey says:
ha ha ha - we're looking at it already

Dietrich says:
remember a-36 is "compost steel" any thing and everything as long as it tests pout to min 3600 psi
yield
typically 1018 is kept to better tolerances

Torrey says:
ahh...
so if we pick up some 1018 rod, we could make a swizzly end and a straight part to, say, stick in her hair.

Dietrich says:
yes.. we probabaly could..
depending on what you mean by swizzly

Torrey says:
or perhaps rusty chopsticks?