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Old 01-10-2008, 10:29 AM
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Default Re: Pits in finished stainless

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Originally Posted by Rasper View Post
Do you know for certain that they are stainless? Stainless is hard. To cut pits like that in stainless would take more than a cloth buffing wheel.

It looks like you have a metal which has little pockets of a softer metal embedded throughout, possibly having precipitated out from being heated. For instance, the chromium will precipitate out of stainless if it is heated to around a dull red and held there for more than two or three minutes.

Richard
He does say they are old...my understanding is that when stainless first came out it was not a very good material. Perhaps it's the quality of the stainless...?

Maybe if he skipped the aggressive sisal wheel it wouldn't tear it up.
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