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Old 08-28-06 | 04:08 AM
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No difference. The alloys are almost identical in both metallurgy and thermomechanical processing. I should imagine the reason they changed is more to do with securing shipments in an acceptable time frame, price of materials and quality control. As a general rule, and Reynolds are likely to get miffed at me here, True Temper steel is more consistent
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