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Grades of brass
Powder Keg:
One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that aluminum bronze is also slightly magnetic due to the about 5% iron in the mix. I've never tried it, but a magnet should be attracted to it.
bry1975:
If you have the materials grade you can probably look it up below, matweb is a very useful site:-
http://www.matweb.com/
Also be careful with copper alloys as manganese and lead are often added and if it's brass
you're working with you'll notice the Zinc as it's an aphrodisiac. :thumbup:
Bry
Dean W:
--- Quote from: bry1975 on January 15, 2011, 02:23:42 AM --- if it's brass you're working with you'll notice the Zinc as it's an aphrodisiac.
--- End quote ---
It's an aphrodisiac? I think if that were true I'd have been a raging sex fiend by now. I've turned huge amounts of brass into chips
and never felt the slightest arousal. :scratch:
Bogstandard:
I have noticed a great deal by following both UK and US based websites.
In the US, everyone has a liking for quoting numbers for metals, and most times I have no idea what they are on about, and I don't want to know. I don't know if it is a one upmanship thing, showing that you can remember numbers.
In the UK, except for a few generally known ones, like EN1a (free cutting mild steel) we tend to call it as it is, that way no one gets confused.
Plus of course, unless you are in industry requiring specialist materials (with their relevent numbers), we at home don't need to know all this exact garbage stuff, as we normally make bits of what we can get hold of.
So it is normally brass, bronze, silver steel, stainless or just steel. It all cuts, and the enjoyment we get out of cutting a piece of something we have picked up, easy or hard, is all part of the enjoyment.
When I make say a crank for an engine, I don't go searching about looking for specialist materials, mine comes out of my junk box, whatever looks and feels right, and I can guarantee the crank won't wear out or break in my lifetime, and most probably not in whoever takes it over.
So don't go overboard finding out what it is exactly, use it as what you think it will do.
Bogs
bry1975:
Hi Dean,
It's the fine dust from finishing that would allow absorption into the blood stream.
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