> >Barney,
> No, I'm pretty sure Stellite hardness goes all the way to the
> bone. Before my illustrious career as a Naval Officer, I was an
> enlisted nuclear reactor operator. Some of the valves in the primary
> cooling system are made of stellite, or as we called it,
> stellite-haynes. It refers to a specific composition of steel, and
> I think, chromium. If I hadn't brain-dumped all of my nuke
> knowledge, I could probably tell you what the exact composition is
> that has been trademarked as "Stellite".
> Regards,
> Scott Gardner
> gardner@lwcomm.com
> < www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>
>
> WOW! So if we put in stellite valves, we can put a sticker on the car:
> "Powered by Nuclear Reactor components"?
>
I guess so, but there are valves and then there are !!VALVES!! The
main coolant cutout valves we used are about five feet tall, and
weigh about 3000lbs. You could probably melt one down and make two
or three complete MGB shells.
I wish I had my 'B' when I worked on the reactors, because I swear,
looking back on it, our electrics were made by Lucas.
Scott Gardner
gardner@lwcomm.com
www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
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