We cut up crane cables and rigging every freaking day (I work in a steel mill), and I can probably come up with more 1+ inch wire rope than you'd want to fool with, if we can sort out the shipping. (Right now, I know where there's 30 feet of 1.5 inch carbon steel wire rope that's in "relocatable" status.)Highspeed wrote:HTRN wrote:Have you considered cable damascus as an interim measure? Steel cable is common as dirt in most first world nations.
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Flat pry bar? Springy, tough. I don't know what steel, but probably about like a leaf spring.
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I just had a brainwave. A really good mate of mine back in the UK ( the guy I was teaching gunsmithing to ) - his missis works for Europes largest service agent for Detroit Diesel.
They are always shipping heavy parts around between the US and Europe, I'll see if they can help out somehow.
They are always shipping heavy parts around between the US and Europe, I'll see if they can help out somehow.
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Would old engine parts work?
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Are you thinking about pounding out a connecting rod or even pounding down and reshaping a PISTON?Aglifter wrote:Would old engine parts work?
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Perhaps...
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If that's the case, I'd *PROBABLY* go with the connecting rod, as it is designed to handle more stress (other than compression impact from compression-space explosion or even detonation [pinging]) along it's long axis than the actual piston. I can only imagine it has AWESOME structural properties along the whole thing for ease (as cost-saving) of manufacturing.Aglifter wrote:Perhaps...
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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