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SIGSHR · December 11, 2017, 03:37 PM

My understanding-based on my reading of Hatcher-is that there were a few bad production runs long before WWI. Changing the steel and using pyrometers solved that problem. We are of course going to debate this until the Crack of Doom.

December 11, 2017, 03:37 PM	#18
SIGSHR Senior Member Join Date: September 13, 2005 Posts: 4,700	My understanding-based on my reading of Hatcher-is that there were a few bad production runs long before WWI. Changing the steel and using pyrometers solved that problem. We are of course going to debate this until the Crack of Doom.