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Default Do you care where your tools are manufactured?

Mark & Juanita wrote:


Remember the same thing. I think "pot metal" was reference to a very low
grade of metal casting that would neither weld, braze, nor glue well after
it was made.



Also known as white metal. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal

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Jack Novak
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