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Bill Swears
 
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From a manufacturing side that seem pretty unlikely to happen unless

there is criminal substitution or a great deal of incompetence on the
part of the buyer.

Incompetence. But the buyer in this case was the maker of the alloy,
and it isn't a modern story. The story is set in a in a milieu where
people would be working out the basic alloying characteristics, and the
snaps and shackles were on a test platform.

Bill

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Bill Swears

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ben Franklin, 1755 "Historical Review of Pennsylvania"

To think that was once a right wing comment. In the land of Homeland
Security it seems.. Suspiciously left-wing.