Weird tangent of a flex…. Was a weld inspector helper, got left at the shop while the licensed inspector went on a job, had to cut bits of welded pipe to certain size/shape to allow it to be tested. One test sample was a sheet of 3/16” welded Inconel. Burned up two bandsaw blades, and then later, two Bridgeport end mill bits. That was when me and my shop manager learned the grade of Inconel is harder than the HSS tool steel that we used all the time to cut standard gas pipe. (handed the test coupon to my shop… Read more »