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To: Ilaine who wrote (51612)	6/1/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

>>If it's the same thing, over and over again, then it's probably an apprentice practicing on something that's been discarded.<< It's got the capital letters, etc; so I agree that it's possibly someone practicing, and that the engraving is coincident. Still; the original purpose of such an expensive pc of mtl? Expensive, expensive, expensive. A very expensive custom-designed part that HAD to be brass. And very heavy; heavier that a normal wearing surface. If you were going to have something bear or wear against any thickness of this, it would be SO heavy, the bearing object, that a different design would be used altogether. In my experience in machining, brass is used where you want a bearing or wear point to be softer than steel, so that it takes the abuse. Absorbs the wear, wears out, and is replaced; leaving the larger, more heavily vested main part, unworn. I saw a lot of brass surfaces and packings, but never anything like this. I bet my old mentor would know exactly. I bet five dollars.