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Fred finished my custom knife finally :) It's made of Vanadis 4E steel, 66HRC. After totally stupid complications with Bofa wire transfer, I finally made it, hopefully the knife will be here in a week or two, without any troubles from volcanos and such...

Thursday, May 20, 2010 22:09:03

Added Latrobe DuraTech 420PM steel, similar to Crucible's CPM S90V steel, formerly CPM 420V. Added Latrobe proprietary Lescowear cold work tool steel. Added Metal Ravne proprietary OH255 cold work tool steel.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:47:28

Moved out OCR12V2 steel into its own group, it was incorrectly listed as AISI D7 tool steel, when in fact i's W-nr 1.2378, added spec composition of the 1.2378 tool steel.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:16:44

Fixed naming groups for Japanese SK5 steel, and fixed composition for AISI M35 high speed tool steel, which was missing Cobalt in its composition.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 09:08:52

Over two dozen JIS standard(Japanese) names added to the chart. Also, added a new alloy OSIKROSP cold work tool steel, which is also 80CrV8, 1.2552 W-Nr, and SKS42 JIS.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 22:25:02

Three new proprietary, high speed, PM tool steels from PSM Industries PM Krupp subdivision. New alloys are T15HV tool steel, T42HV tool steel and PX-16 tool steel.

Monday, May 17, 2010 23:08:29

That + sign was a trouble all over the places... In the alloy notes, it was incorrectly displayed as $ symbol. Fixed that too.

Monday, May 17, 2010 15:50:30

The chart and the graph were incorrectly handling the + sigh that appeared in the new alloy name, Bimax42+ steel, if you want to be precise. Fixed the issue.

Monday, May 17, 2010 15:40:14

Fixed composition of the 90MnCrV8 cold work tool steel, Euro equivalent of the AISI O2 tool steel. New - Sandvik 7C27Mo2 steel composition.

Monday, May 17, 2010 13:15:15

After 7 month of search and research, it went over 2000 names on Friday night. Now you can identify over 2000 steels by their names and there's over 500 alloy compositions in the chart. There's more to come, including Titanium alloys which are completely missing now.

Sunday, May 16, 2010 15:45:42