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Taking a Leaf out of Corvette’s Engineering Book

Without overloading on nostalgia, it seems many things that were once considered unremarkable are today quite unacceptable, most notably, smoking in pubs. Although the law is only 9 years old, smoke-filled pubs seem completely alien....


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Knives and Forks – the Untold Story!

It’s an unusual quirk of the language that we can take one word as a description and all of a sudden it’s taken on an entirely new meaning. Google for instance, was originally a noun...


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Testing Steel… How Hard Can It Be?

Growing up, we all used to know a kid that was 'as hard as nails', which we understood to mean that they were pretty tough, but did we ever really question how hard that was?...


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What Is Tool Steel?

It's been several hundred years since the question “What is in a name?” was introduced into the British consciousness. It's an interesting principle, because sometimes a name is very precise and exact and at other...


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What Steel Do You Have There?

When you deal with as much steel as those in the trade do, you get to know your product quite well. By look, feel, weight or density, you can identify different metals and you have...


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