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Default Wear resistant vs. easily machinable metals


"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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Nope, Tim is right


Besides that, hard on hard of the _same_ hardness often induces galling.


True, when neither journal nor shaft is hard enough to resist it. Galling is
the primary reason that soft steel on soft steel is such a disaster.

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