I don't know much about stainless steels, but, I do know that good stainless is anti-magnetic. If your magnet won't attract a stainless steel object, then you know you've got good stainless.
British Steel has a really bad anti-labor reputation in the USA and from what I've been told the British steelworkers union is almost non-existant. When did the privatization of British Steel start before or with Lady Thatcher.
Tom Lehman
Daniel Davies wrote:
> Doug quoted Jack Triplett:
>
> "Actually, the first thing
> wrong with that contrast is that quality change in a
> ton of steel has
> been formidable."
>
> And asked
>
> "Is steel really lots better today than it was 50
> years ago? How? "
>
> My semi-educated guess would be that a ton of steel
> running out of a randomly selected mill today would be
> exactly the same as 50 years ago (if the mill had been
> around that long), that a ton steel running out of a
> randomly selected mill today would be slightly worse
> than a ton of the same sort of steel produced fifty
> years ago (because of the increasing proportion of
> mini-mills), but that a notional "average ton" of
> steel today would be of higher "quality" than fifty
> years ago because the proportion of high-value added
> stainless steels is probably greater today. I recall
> the discussion on whether the value of a college
> degree had fallen or risen ....
>
> dd
>
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