Steel banding material is low carbon, it is NOT spring steel which runs
in the .85% to .95% carbon range.

Chuck Sherwood wrote:
I need some flat spring steel and wonder where I could find it, maybe
off some old equipment.
Needs to be 1/2 inch wide, 1/16 inch or so thick, and only a couple of
inches long.


Sounds exactly like the bands they strap things together with.