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

[peter fels]

On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
> 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.

There is so much more surplus to support a possible featherbedder now than then,
that his conclusion seems improbable.
> 
> My computer's been down all day, just now got it working again, so I
> haven't seen what he replied.

Did you do OK with the extra water Mike?
> 
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