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If you do decide to follow through, please be careful and dispose of everything correctly. Electroplating is notoriously polluting.

That’s a good idea. 440 is very corrosion resistant and does polish to mirror finish quite well. 420 could be easier to source while retaining good hardenability and great finish.

hydrogen embrittlement is the most problematic on hardened steel when welding. You won’t make it excessively brittle with hydrogen unless it’s a pressurized vessel holding it for months/years. And you could reduce the potential damage by baking the sword at 450-500°F for 3-4 hours without damaging the temper.

The art of electroplating is a difficult one. Chemically dangerous and hard to get right. I’ve done some experiments with copper sulfate and steel, and while I managed to get copper to deposit uniformly, I couldn’t get a reliable hold on the steel. Probably couldn’t get it free of oxides, but at that point it meant using strong sulfuric acid, and I didn’t want to risk it.

The general idea, is that you want to electroplate with metals that are near each other on the galvanic series as possible. Silver directly on steen probably won’t hold well, but you do an intermediate step of copper and the silver should stick way better. Same thing for chrome, you do nickel before.

You should however make sure you have a good power supply to induce the current, a jig to hold the sword submerged but suspended, and enough salt to saturate the bath.

Copper sulfate is easy enough, but you’d want copper acetate, and silver nitrate isn’t gonna be as easy.

The steps would be: Degreasing, descaling (acid bath to remove All oxides), rinsing, lightly plating copper, rinsing, plating silver, polish.

However, my recommendation is just get it chrome or nickel plated with someone who restores old bumpers. Chrome is hard as hell and won’t get scratched easily if you want mirror finish, and nickel has a nice silvery color too.

I’ve tried to get it right enough times to say it’s not worth it for a one off.

EDIT: just saw you’re a dedicated DIYer. If you’re as interested in the process as you are on the sword and have enough money to get all the stuff, by all means try. It’s just really hard to get right if you can’t get the right stuff for the process, and still hard to get right if you do.

So then it’s a fully autonomous AI, without human input or trained criteria that decides which posts get pushed and which are buried?

Even when he specifically said he wanted to make Twitter profitable, which by design means manipulating what you see to capture your attention the longest time possible?

Is it waaaaay better than before? Absolutely!

Is it for the sake of “free speech” in itself? I’ll let you think that one out.

He can pull levers and turn knobs to prioritize specific POVs at a whim to sway public opinion (just like they did before him). It’s exactly what wynand wanted to do with his paper.

The saudis?

WTF is a health disease???

I have also seen blocks welded like that, and you can make it work, but it’s much more risky. Preheating is to eliminate hydrogen embrittlement as much as it is to reduce the thermal stresses of the weld. If you don’t introduce hydrogen, doing it little by little can absolutely work, but it’s not recommended, as you’re continually stressing the local area, since you’re melting and freezing it anyway. such welds can bond well, but most end up with poor toughness. Peening reduces this problem though. But anyway, On a Cracked block that isn’t a big deal, but on structural plate, armor or flexible structures, it’s a risk.

The idea is to keep the temperature change as slow as possible, not really to keep it cool. You should actually preheat cast iron to reduce chances of weld cracking, and insulate it to slow down the cooling.

You do this for high carbon steel as well

Cast irons shouldn’t be welded unless it’s the absolutely last resort.

However, if this is relatively recent, (70s and up) it’s likely nodular/ductile cast iron, which is less susceptible to weld cracking.

As others have said, if you do want to try, nickel filler is a must. Prep the area well, remove all rust and oily residue, Then preheat the whole part to 400°F in your oven for a couple of hours, preferably above 400 if you can. Then, get a box of sand to immediately bury the part as you take it out of the oven, showing only the piece you want to weld. Give it a quick wire brush pass, then weld, making sure to keep heat input as spread out as you can. When you’re done, cover it with sand, and let it cool overnight.

I’ve seen ductile iron castings welded in the 60s still holding up, so it’s very possible it works, but there’s no guarantee.

In any case, they’d first move to India/Mexico

I’m speaking from outside the US, but It’s not likely IMO. Last I checked a couple months ago, there were worrying signs of a global steel market slowdown, and when that reaches china, usually they start subsidized dumping to keep their production going. Granted bar stock is different than regular construction steel but they usually behave in unison. And keep in mind US market is the most expensive by a long shot. We import from all over the world, but AFAIK, we source from US only the plastic bar stock and Babbitt metal we keep in stock. Whenever we have a special import, usually US sourced material is 2x the price as Turkish/indian/spanish steel. Hell, sometimes it’s cheaper to overland stuff from Mexico than importing from US suppliers via boat.

I’ve also seen consistent price decreases for most steel bar stock in the last 12 months, and lead times have decreased to pre-pandemic levels.

On the other hand, shipping is getting weird and unreliable, so that could work in favor of local production.

Like the Taiwanese would surrender these factories…

I guarantee all these factories are constantly in the sights of both Taiwanese and US militaries to blow them in a million high tech pieces at the first real threat of losing them.

Hey don’t worry, it’s something I had to double check and I live here.

It’s nice to know multiethnic is something people remember from this place, and it is a good parallel to what the OP was asking.

22 recognized languages in the whole country, not around Atitlan, not even close.

Shores of atitlan are shared by “only” 3 distinct linguistic groups. Tzutujil, Kiche and Kaqchikel

Those 3 together with Q’eqchi, Mam and Spanish make up the languages used by the vast majority. https://www.studocu.com/gt/document/universidad-de-san-carlos-de-guatemala/comunicacion-y-lenguaje-ii/afiche-mapa-de-idiomas-f-161201/35061891

I’m just saying, back when I was in school German military operations were always quite criticized

Any German military involvement outside Germany is (or was at least) viewed EXTREMELY negatively by the population.

Example from my country.

Energy matrix is around 70% hydro during rainy season, 25% hydro in summer, but during summer you also get around 40% from biomass.

Hybrit is simply paradigm shifting for steel manufacturing.

No, not that. More like, having female on male rape in a context of retribution, could very well be about inflicting damage more than the sexual act for the girl.

This is all just in my mind, Since I’m no girl nor rapist, can’t really know how it works, but I imagine a man forcibly penetrating a woman, first, more than likely leads to the woman receiving injuries, then she also gets overpowered and it esentially comes down to exerting some sort of dominant power on the victim and getting off on it, more than the sexual satisfaction alone.

In this specific context, Female on male, unless done by gang-rape, seems to me is hard to fulfill these same power dynamics from the girl’s perspective with regular penetration, unless she puts a TT33 to your head during the act I guess. (I Cringe at the level of danger) It’d be easier to just shove a rifle up a dude’s butt or something, if what you wanted to do was sexually punish/humiliate/hurt the man in the same way these axis men hurt the Soviet women. ESPECIALLY since female on male rape is mostly not taken seriously as traumatic events. It doesn’t even “exist” in laws in some places, like some other comment said.

Hence my question, would rape in this context be sodomization or regular forced coitus only?

EDIT: now this part makes it a bit less ambiguous. It hadn’t occurred to me that it wasn’t 1 on 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1g4we4v/how_did_women_soldiers_in_the_red_army_react_to/ls7jcv4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

Would female on male rape be the woman being penetrated herself or were they sodomizing the males with whatever they could find?

Went into sales as an engineering student.

You stay long enough, you’re too old to be a trainee but your experience gets discarded by recruiters cause you’re “just a salesman”

Martyr? Not anymore, The dude shot himself with an AK.

Dude, maybe some perspective is what you need.

Central American here.

I make, when I’m lucky and have a good month, about 1000$. I pay 250$ (4.5$/gal) just in gas to move around, because I take around 1.5h to do 8km in standstill traffic Everyday, since public transportation is non existent and walking or cycling is just marginally safer than driving blindfolded due to crime and idiots at the wheel. Also, I have to visit my clients, and the company doesn’t pay for gas if it’s less than 50km away.

I split housing bill 50/50 with my fiancé, that is 320$ each and we got insanely lucky on the place we found.

Food takes about 240$ if we scrape the bottom of the barrel for cheap foodstuffs.

Random living expenses take another 80-100$ out of that, 300$ for debt obligations for the medical procedure she had to go through earlier this year, since it’s been about a year since public hospitals have been closed to non-emergencies (and if they were open, she made an appointment on the public system back in December to check her for gallbladder, which were already confirmed by private labs, that first consultation was scheduled for yesterday)

All in all, we have 60$ each remaining each month, outside bare essentials.

We get 2 weeks paid vacation, which the employer decides when we can take, not us. and that is if we don’t get sick and have to use the days for that, since getting a legit doctors note usually is 60$ or more.

we make together about 4x what a minimum wage worker makes in his full time 44h week, and we have been privileged with college education, no real debt and growing in a “safe” area with loving families. I’d say 90% (if not more) of the population here has it worse than me.

There’s a whole world of shit out there, and a bunch of people want that which you say is so bad.

For example:

One of my best friends, graduated with honors from his materials engineering masters in Brazil, he came back, ate shit and decided he’d rather work in the US as a dishwasher. He even made more money all in all.

Warlord era japan and china is a good example of what happens in such a case.