Originally Posted By: L. Brown

On p. 8 of the 1922 V-C catalog are 4 Xrays of the type of steel used in high quality V-C barrels: Diamond steel, followed by the 3 types of Holtzer steel they use. Whatever Holtzer did in 1900, by 1922 they were producing steel that was being used in V-C barrels, whether V-C themselves made the barrels or not.


Curious about the Xray images. Does it say Xray? The tubes were not dependable to say the mid to late 1920s and I wonder how they coerced to penetrate for a particular skin depth.

Possibly was it just a lot of magnification?


1902 Iron & Steel

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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