[modeleng] Re: Against the grain
- From: stepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:50:54 +0100
Ahh, a "youngster", lol
That could well be the case. As I said, these were all bar ends, so
could be of any type of steel, and cut off for any reason.
Around half-a-hundredweight of them, and very useful too (except for
this specific one!
Alan
On 16/04/2012 10:04, peter chadwick wrote:
> This discussion suddenly triggered something in my failing memory - after
> all, I am 65 next month!
> Many years ago, I was told that steel bar ends because of drawing, chopping
> etc were often hard or starngely crystalline or whatever, but tended not to
> be homogenous like the rest of the bar. The guy who told me had been involved
> with production on autos, and siad that they had got into the habit of sawing
> off the first and last 6 to 9 inches of a 20 foot bar because otherwise they
> would often get quality problems, especially when they wanted to case harden
> the parts.
> Which could explain things.
> Peter Chadwick
> Swindon.
>
>
>
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