[TheForge] Re: Spring steel (and other) breaking in mild acid

[Mike Spencer]

PF wrote:

> It's curious that this metallurgically erudite group has no clear cut,
> specific answer.  Summer vacation may be part of the reason though.

Yesterday, someone remarked on a news group the number of different
trade and craft guilds there were in the middle ages and that it might
take five different crafts to make a knife.  Then he opined that it was
a sort of featherbedding.

I gently tore a strip off him. :-) There was, even then, just too
much to learn to be able to do everything.  We come closer today, what
with tech schools, textbooks and manuals, the net and easy travel. But
there's still too much to learn.

My computer's been down all day, just now got it working again, so I
haven't seen what he replied.

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