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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Branson on April 21, 2015, 02:47:28 AM

Title: Electro Boracic Steel
Post by: Branson on April 21, 2015, 02:47:28 AM

What the heck is  Electro Boracic Steel?  Dates?  Found the mark on a couple of cooper's tools.

Title: Re: Electro Boracic Steel
Post by: Papaw on April 21, 2015, 09:09:32 AM

Wiktor Kruc says-

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Beware of the use of scientific sounding trade names. Electro-boracic steel appears on various tools, I have seen it on plane blades, adzes and chisels.

It is a totally meaningless phrase, just a Victorian advertising gimmick.

Source- http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUK/z-UKReading/ironSteelAlloys/ironSteelAlloys2.asp (http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUK/z-UKReading/ironSteelAlloys/ironSteelAlloys2.asp)

Title: Re: Electro Boracic Steel
Post by: Branson on April 21, 2015, 10:14:41 AM

"... just a Victorian advertising gimmick."  tells me what I want to know.  Now I have some kind of handle on the date of the tools.  One, maybe both were made by Greaves.