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Without knowing the chemical composition of the dies, I don’t think there’s a way to be certain what the hardness is/was. The below link has a different version of the TTT diagram (Figure 8, on p. 11… (View Post)

One of the beneficial attributes of steel is that it can be heat treated in numerous ways to get a wide variety of properties for many different end applications. One of these applications are the di… (View Post)

The fact that there are 12 currently listed on eBay tells me that there’s no way (in my opinion) that B-1 is R5-, since it would mean that 1/5 to 1/6 of the entire population is currently available f… (View Post)

I recognize that I’m bumping an older thread, but it’s still 2020 so I’ll go for it. This 1820 B-1 arrived this weekend, and it looks very nice and original in hand. It’s graded G6 by PCGS. I’m still… (View Post)

Here are some of my favorite bust quarter acquisitions from this year: (View Post)