I have two very sharp thick chips that I picked off a very large Cincinatti Planer Mill, they have cut nice neat holes in my pocket and put some very interesting designs in my thigh. However they are from a piece of tooling from a competitor that I am trying to Reverse Engineer. I am working on designing a new piece of equipment which uses this tooling.
So since I don't own one of those fancy new spectrographic pistol looking metal analysis tools I would like to find out what type of steel these chips are made from. I think spark testing is a huge waste of time. I will be getting in touch with a few testing labs on monday, but does anyone have any experience with this? What can I expect to pay? Or do you have any alternatives? Before anyone suggests it, no I cannot ask the competitor. Thanks in a advance.
Greg