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05-08-11 | 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by old's'cool

If I'm not mistaken, Reynolds 531 first appeared in the 1930's. I'm pretty sure that high carbon steels haven't been considered "high tech" since quite a while ago.

Thanks for the update on the timeline - I wasn't that sure of how long ago that happened. I'd expect it was not widely used then.

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