Last word off me on this subject
if it has nickel, chrome then its stainless, if no nickel then chrome steel it is. grades of stainless is in the thousands.
yes tim it did cost a feckin fortune and the bastid cases keep on snapping every 7 months so they get sent back under warrentry work all the time.
if no chrome then is a nickel iron alloy.
True stainless is nearly always non magnetic as well, not all the time but most of it.
Resisted for so long but have succumbed....It was a passion (necessary too) of mine for many a year
Stainless steel is Iron with a Chrome content above 11% give or take. Adding Nickel and/or Molybdenum ( and other elements)...enhances the properties of Stainless Steel but even without them it's still stainless if it's got the Chrome in.
One example of Stainless Steel we have made for yonks....Grade/Product name.... "SF100"...made in 150 tonne at a time melts...Customer Gillette (was anyrode)....for razor blades....).67% Carbon, bit of Silicon, 13% Cr...and Moly/Nickel etc all with max residual limits...i.e fook all else added.
You a scrap man Wolfie?
Oh yea, when all the Niton guns are fooked we just put a lead on any of the thousands of Junkies roaming about and walk them 'round the scrap yard.....they can pick stainless out fookin blindfold. :-0)
Of the 5 types of Stainless only the Austenitic type ( the commonest in "our" lives) is non-magnetic ( but not always totallyc7u8 ....depends on how it's been worked) The other 4 types
are magnetic
That's me fookin lot....:-:
