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Gold/Mining/Energy : Precious and Base Metal Investing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: krishnamurti888 who wrote (19757)	9/8/2003 7:08:44 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39344

The Ford was made since day one of Vanadium alloy steel, which is very strong, so the body metal of the lizzie and the A could be thinner. The Ford body metal was inherently stronger than the tank armour plating metal of the day. Unfortunately that made them tend to be "tinny" and the alloys steel rusted faster. A tinny rust bucket. Ford body metal being thin and brittle tends to tear in an accident instead of bending. Hit a Ford, and you will quicly lose count of the pieces it disintegrates into. Dodge always had the more solid feel and the more durable rust proof body. Ditto Ford brake drums which were copper steel, which while tough, rusted to beat the band. All this alloy steel in cars tends to make the remelting trade difficult as it is hard to get the alloy metals out of the steel to get a pure iron product to start fresh. This tends to keep the mines in business and makes a high demand for cheap Brazilian pellets. There are mines of nickel-iron here and there which would make a stainless rust free car from direct melt stainless steel. (They made shafts for destroyers from the stuff during the war) Don't hold your breath for manufacturers to start building them. Or stainless rust free mufflers/exhausts. All you would have to do is aluminum plate the muffler and it would last 3 times as long as it does. I don't know about hot aluminum for fumes though. Kinda bad for the health. Zinc too. Stainless is safer. Aluminum plating the bottom body steel makes sense however. Lasts longer than zinc in salt water spray tests. (8 years). EC<:-}