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Old 10-19-05, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by The Knave
Steel yes, bend back.
Alu, not. Simple.

Nature of the latticing? (sp) of the metals structure, steel is a grain, alu more a lattice like crystal -cracks when flexed.
Steel can be bent\flexed. Alu suffers under this =metal fatique.

I second Mr. You...who are you, and WTH are you talking about? Why can't you write in even half-complete sentences? Reads like you've just come down from another star system or something.

I hereby declare this thread useless.
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