At 01:27 PM 11/30/06 EST, you wrote:
>Harry tells it like it is. I picked up a nice chunk of "bronze" at one of
my
>favorite junk metal sites. I can not begin to cut it with HSS tools. - John
I'm not immuned to this either. A few years ago at a surplus yard I
bought a stick of what they said was stainless steel, and it looked exactly
like SS. It was big stuff too, far more than I needed, but the price was
right and it was perfect for large scale buffer heads and I figured I could
sell off what I didn't need. I discovered real quick that it was not SS.
It turned out to be a rare military Iconel alloy which is essentially
unmachinable by amatuers even with carbide tooling so I now have a lifetime
supply of window sash weights.
What I did was ignore one of the very first things I was ever told by
my first mentor, . . . don't use stuff (metal) unless you are sure what it is.
Regards,
Harry
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