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Old 06-21-18 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by rollagain
And that 'same metal as before' still won't be any good because it's still soft steel and it still has no cross-sectional stiffness. Please don't buy any of that, at any thickness.
Fallacy alert: all steels have pretty much the same stiffness, over a small range of variation. Thickness and geometry, not exotic alloys, are how you make a steel item stiffer.

What meaningfully varies is the yield strength - the point at which they don't spring back after you remove the applied force.

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