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Everything Has a Trend… Even Metal!

Things aren’t as bad as they used to be, but it does still feel like the television is overrun with programmes about antiques, furniture and upcycling. One programme that we discussed recently is about restoration...


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Making the Cut – with Plasma!

As long as we’ve known about metals, we’ve been creating tools that allow us to deal with them; we’ve put a huge amount of effort into heating, refining, shaping, grinding, cutting and attaching metals together...


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Steel Is Beautiful, Whether Big or Small!

There’s no denying that we’re a little in awe of just how many different grades of steel can be put to different uses. Just as the dawn of the smartphone age saw everybody saying “There’s...


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Mark Firth – Making a Success of Armaments

Yorkshire has long been a county linked with iron, steel and metallurgy in the public consciousness, starting with the boom period in the middle of the 19th Century. The quality of the products that came out...


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Some Weighty Talk With Metals!

If you ask somebody “What is a kilogram?” you might get a series of different answers. Some may be literal and say “One thousand grams”, while others, dependent on their age, might say “About 2.2...


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