To all I have been following this discussion on various brasses. I can believe that many of us pick up brass from our local engineering works and make small parts for our locos. I am a pensioner and have been building models over long years and go for the free left overs from industry. I confirm that one or the other turns up better than the other and I'm sure we all turn copper with great respect just waiting for it accelerate past your left ear if you try to take a too big a cut. Hopefully to the left of left ear. I wonder how many of us have had one of our unidentified brass bits disintegrate or whatever over the last, say 25 years? I certainly have had no problems and I don't know anybody who has. Am I just lucky and are there lots of disintegrated boilers out there or are we being over cautious about our little kettles? Are we perhaps exaggerating the "Belt and Braces" world we live in? I know of a case in which 4 stainless bars were documented as being the same material. One of the bars was magnetic!! The documents were in order and the inspectors accepted the bars. I think these days the documents are more important than the metal.
Just thoughts running through my head. Bert [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
