[TheForge] Steel substitution

[Mike Linn]

flutagon - aka  Atha Pneu  aka S-1 ( I think)

At 09:11 PM 1/16/02 -0400, you wrote:

>On this topic, nobody has mentioned Flutagon(tm) for hot tools.  All
>my little tools -- for doing details on heads and the like -- are made
>from random scraps that seemed promising.  But I have some medium
>sized hot chisels made from Flutagon that hold up very well.  Gets a
>little too hot, quench it and it gets hard again but not brittle.
>
>Did they stop making this stuff while I wasn't looking?  Or has nobody
>else heard of it?
>
>- Mike
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