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Stainless steel can be really brittle under certain conditions. I've mentioned the pistol barrels I've seen with fractures along the lands.
Don't think I ever mentioned here that in the past when I was into sailing I welded up custom fittings for my boat, so did some research into heat treatment, corrosion resistance and fatigability of stainless alloys. You'd be surprised how just a little contamination on a weldment or a little bit too rapid cooling of hot steel (maybe just a couple psi too much pressure of the tri-mix gas when welding) can turn what looks like a really tough piece of metal into something easy to fracture.
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In a few years when the dust finally clears and people start counting their change there is a pretty good chance that President Obama may become known as The Great Absquatulator. You heard it first here on TFL.
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