INFI Contest! Win a free Busse Mean Street!

The specialized Carbon atom that used to be called "Buckyball" buckminsterfullerene (refering to Buckminster Fuller- since the stuff has a geodesic dome sorta shape).

Strontium
Magnesium
Palladium
Tungsten
Vanadium
Bismuth
Antimony

Ah! I give up!!!
:-)
 
Sorry Harv,

You missed the boat on that one. I endorse INFI because it by far the most impressive metal I've had to work with... bar none.

The design in 1095 is just that, the design. It has nothing to do with the metal. 1095 is a fine steel when properly treated. I designed the TOPS Anaconda for a specific purpose based on over three decades of field experience. I am enthusiastic about the design. Now if I could just get it in INFI I'd be satisfied.

Several of our forum members (Hoodlums) now have the BM in INFI. Hundreds of other folks also have it. Time will tell if their experience with INFI will parallel mine.

Meanwhile, I am enthusiastic about having both an older Ford 4X4 and a Jaguar. They both do what their makers claim.

Ron
 
Bucky ball? Common guys, I know it's a good knife material. But it aint rocket science.

[This message has been edited by tallwingedgoat (edited 24 August 1999).]
 
Ceramic. Has anyone gotten it yet???
 
Most of the good elements have been taken...I guess I'll go with Europium because of the cubic, body centered crystal structure. My first choice would have been Niobium, but War Child got to it first.
 
Top Ten Things That Are Probably Not in INFI, Followed by My Actual Guess:

1. Hardie Airtight bagpipe seasoning
2. mermaid liver oil
3. hair
4. bat guano
5. Hubbard boot grease
6. eleven herbs & spices ("Finger licken' good!")
7. BHT (a preservative)
8. That stuff Snickersnee kept in the jar
9. caffeine
10. Austin Powers's mojo


My guess is: paraffin

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"Never carry a knife shorter than your schnoz."
 
8. That stuff Snickersnee kept in the jar
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I think he called it sourpuss
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Due to the overwhelming response to this post we have decided to increase the number of Mean Street prizes to four. I should’ve contacted you guys when I was trying to develop this stuff? I now have about 20 new ideas on steel additives. Here’s the update on the progress of the contest. Three people have guessed the correct ingredient. As of now, only the first two correct answers count. The third mention was in a multiple guess post and is therefore disqualified. So. . . . the next two correct guesses will also win Busse Combat Mean Streets ($217.00 value). Everyone now gets one more shot at it. Only one guess per post, contest ends Today @ 11:00 p.m. EST.

Good Luck,
Jerry Busse
 
COOL CONTEST.
Where do these people come up with all these names?
Niobium - Alloying element in nickel and
cobalt-base superalloys and SS
steel.Yeah right!
Osmium - I like the sound of that one!
Useful for its hardness and re-
sistance to wear.Used for fountain
pen nibs,phonograph needles and
maybe.....knive steel? Don`t think
so.
Yttrium - Deoxidizer for vanadium,highest
tensile strength of the rare earth
metals and used as a micro-cooler
in some Russian titanium alloys to
aid in welding characteristics...
come on fellow knife nuts!!!!
(even if you spell it correctly it
looks wrong)
Now a good knife steel should have a little
Wolfram in it and most steel alloys have teeny amounts of P and Si....but??

Later on in the post someone mentioned
"process by which the secret ingredient is secretly added." Where is 007 when you need him?This leads me back to my first thoughts about interstitial alloying elements (oxy-
gen,nitrogen,carbon,hydrogen).Interstitial
elements can be added after the metal is made,I know that oxygen is added to ti-
tanium golf shafts during a heat-cycle to
increase tensile strength.
It can`t be hydrogen because hydrogen really
likes it`s self and is small enough to move
around ,link-up and start making cracks!!
Not a good thing in metals.

Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon.....?

My guess is oxygen.

Wait!......carbonitriding.That`s a process of adding carbon and nitrogen into a solid alloy by exposure to suitable gases at
certain temperatures!!

What ever the answer,the main thing is we
all exercised our brain,dusted off a book
or two and had a little fun.

Thanks for putting up with me,
RB
 
Hi Jerry, hopefully I'm correct I printed the whole list and made a comparisson chart and came up with 3 possibles but my gues would be Copper (Cu)

cheers, hope I've won my first prize ever, Bagheera

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Hello mister Busse,
My not to educated guess would be Beryllium
If I didn't write it correctly forgive me.
Best regards,
Bever


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I hope this will be the one that gets me a real knife!
My guess: Bismuth (Bi)

best regards,
Sebastian

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