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Stainless is created by blending the high-grade steel with chromium carbides, which toughen it, make it resistant to rust, corrosion and great heat. Sweden's steelmakers cold-roll the stainless steel to 4/1,000 in., then grind, polish and cut it into blade-wide coils before shipping it to the blademakers, who stamp and sharpen the final blade. Stainless is also indispensable in making nuclear reactors, missiles, jet engines and supersonic plane wings, as well as surgical instruments and food-processing equipment...
...biggest by far is the Uddeholm Co., which originally solved the one problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic...
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When I bought my '55 car (one of the Big Three), resplendent in chromium and sea-mist green, I covered the shiny part of the steering wheel with masking tape and painted the wiper arms flat black. A friend told me how to use wet sandpaper to eliminate the glare from the hood over the instrument panel...
...cars tested by Dr. Allen had bright chromium trim in the driver's held ot vision. Even small bits of brightwork, such as chromium windshield wipers or decorations on the dash, can reflect sun light and cause spots of glare. Attempts to express the space age in instrument panels end with the instruments poorly grouped. Their needles or other indicators are hard for many drivers to see Many new car models share a common feature: a hood that covers the instrument panel so that its lights will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime...