The apparent trade distinction between "Flußstahl" and "Gußstahl" (I am here purposely using the OLD orthography, which however also resolved the minuscule "ß" as a majuscule "SS" - the pressing aesthetic question of a potential capital letter "ß", itself an old ligature from handwriting times, is a beautiful quisquilia of German typographical debates), this distinction is a bit, how should I say it, un-intuitive, because in common layperson language, both would seem to mean the same.
But we would have to ask a German metallurgian (old term: Hüttenmann) about this, I guess. I have dutifully tried to educate myself via the German Wikipedia, but failed to comprehend the apparently subtle difference. :-/

Carcano

Last edited by Carcano; 04/11/25 07:19 AM.