I wonder what the cost of TiN coated TC crowns would be :-)
"gold teeth" that could bite through a coin. (or at least, strip wire without cracking)
Mark Rand RTFM
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Dental amalgam?
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But doing things for ourselves is what it is all about.
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There's a big difference between snipping and snapping.
eg. Try a bit of 2mm tool steel after quenching but before annealing.
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Presumably that was what "Jaws" used in the Bond movies...
Regards, Tony
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True enough, but it is so easy to get side tracked into making a tool to make a tool to make a tool, that we don't get anything done. At it's worst one can end up re-inventing the wheel!
Cliff.
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Which is exactly where I am at the moment. I only need a couple of anti-backlash gears and some gear rack for a radio project, and I'm sidetracked into a gera-hobbing machine!
To paraphrase you, from an industrial saying, "When you are up to your arse in alligators, it is easy to forget that you came to drain the swamp" :-)
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Strange stuff silver. I wanted to do a bit of fauk damascening on steel, and melted some silver on a charcoal block, then added about its same volume of lead-based solder.
The resulting alloy wouldn't work - club-hammer and anvil made no impression. Zirconium alloys - eat yer heart out!
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Amalgam of mercury and silver is non-toxic under normal conditions.
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AIUI, it's pure gold (leaf), compressed into the cavity and burnished.
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I often strip wire with my teeth.
Ooops! There goes another one!
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Gold? (but remove thee gems first)