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Roy J
 
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Default Old Steel - New Steel

I would hope any self respecting crow bar would laugh at a
hacksaw!! It has to be something better than some 1018 forged to
shape.

Offbreed wrote:

Grant Erwin wrote:

Most steel made in this country now comes from melted-down cars, not
from mined iron ore.



Is that what they are making crowbars from these days?


Such steel meets minimum specifications but you
may find anomalies like local hard spots (where a chromed ball bearing
was melted in for example).



Which would explain a little about why a crowbar I was cutting up for a
rock bar ate so many hacksaw blades.