"Jeffrey Lindemuth" wrote in message
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"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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"Gary Coffman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:32:34 -0800, "Harold & Susan Vordos"
wrote:

Great idea, but far from modern high quality tool steel. The tool
steels
of
today are not necessarily just carbon steel and don't necessarily
rely on
the carbon cycle for hardness. There are tool steels that have
no iron
in
their makeup.

No iron?

Gary

I offer you, for example, Haynes Stellite, which is iron free. It
is
comprised of chromium, cobalt and tungsten.

Harold



I would submit then that it is not steel. Very useful material but not
steel. Haynes Internation, the manufacture, never refers to it as
steel on their history page:
http://www.haynesintl.com/Historypage/History.htm

Good reading on this page. I never knew that Hastelloy was an
acronym, that begame a word.

Jeff

Agreed. Not steel as such, but commonly used as tool steel before tungsten
carbide became so popular. The point is that "tool steel" doesn't
necessarily contain iron, no more than an iron found in a women's list of
household tools does. I suggest that type of iron is made of aluminum.

I think that, for the most part, all of us know and understand that steel is
an alloy of iron and carbon in which the carbon is dissolved in the iron, it
is not found in a free state, such as it is in gray or ductile iron.

Harold