That's a decent & even slightly informative post Terry but on the material front you completely skipped any real world information in favor of theories and conjecture. You state it just like most others that do not grasp the strength of the materials involved. Your statements are right along the same lines as your out right statement the stock rods will not last because there are PM forged and thus will shatter like glass. You never gave any actual information and data to prove your point just like in your latest post (or most of your posts actually) and spout off a few technical terms and expect everyone to just blindly follow you. (then when they didn't you left ala Dom???) Well just like history has repeatedly proven many times is the past your unproven theories are normally incorrect logic and thinking. Your current allusion that mild steel will fail rapidly has to have some actual credence to it. Your use of the term rapidly would make people think days or months when in actuality it is several years. More proof of real world data and individual testing denouncing conjecture, hearsay, and cliff note theory.
I would be impressed if you actually used proof & hard data instead of empty threats, name calling, and just basic theory formulation. Words without proof are merely just words regardless of a piece of paper. Also because I know this is going to come up. When did you get your degree? How out of date is it now? Students now days are talking your degree in just their first two years of school. (US students) I bet the math you took is taught in junior high or high school now. Times change. Technology changes. There is a high percentage of people with engineering experience on this site and you think you are the only one that can state anything that has any technical knowledge in it. Well you are sorely mistaken and often wrong.
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