SR101 Strippers?

Also a thought is his name being on it and wanting to maintain high quality control. If a bunch un-used blades start floating around for sale that have been stripped poorly it may reflect poorly on the brand with new buyers not in the know. :confused:
 
There's obviously 2 different gremlins- This tool chatter/indexing (as suggested by Busto) like Icky's and then there's Spyderfreaks where they draw across it with a hand grinder- IF that is the tool indexing or whatever, that puppy was seriously lost, looks hand applied spiral art.
 
Leonardo63 said:
There's obviously 2 different gremlins- This tool chatter/indexing (as suggested by Busto) like Icky's and then there's Spyderfreaks where they draw across it with a hand grinder- IF that is the tool indexing or whatever, that puppy was seriously lost, looks hand applied spiral art.
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Here is my Rucki. This was my first stripped Blade, so I actually contacted the selling thinking it was a poor stripping job until I realized that is the "gremlins" people talk about. I thought someone took a damn angle grinder to it and let it bounce off the surface a few times, because that is exactly what it looks like.

I use this blade, so they really don't bother me. If this was a safe queen, they certainly would have been completely removed.
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I just figure they are like hand signed blades from the factory. Every now and then someone gets a complete picture drawn on it.
 
They look to be Cnc mistakes, which are tossed into the "crappy" pile, aka blades to be coated. Probably don't sweat it much as they can be sold as coated blades, but still seems like a poopy way out.
 
plue said:
They look to be Cnc mistakes, which are tossed into the "crappy" pile, aka blades to be coated. Probably don't sweat it much as they can be sold as coated blades, but still seems like a poopy way out.
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Um, no... You obviously haven't been following the whole conversation. O.o Please read more carefully in the future. ;)
 
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I was racking my brain on these gremlins...The squiggly writing I can't wrap my brain around. The ones that appear to be machining marks might be from the steel mill...Steel is either Hot Rolled or Cold Rolled annealed and comes in giant rolls where it could pick up impurities or as its pulled out to be sheared into plates it's dragged over rollers or flat surface with raised burrs that are leaving a witness that looks like machining marks. When the actual blade machining takes place the surface deformation is deeper than the tooling is setup to remove and you don't want to reduce the thickness any more than necessary to eliminate the gremlins. OR I'm just grasping at straws???
 
One simple post by the company would solve the question. I don't understand the avoidance?
 
With Decarb being softer than the hardened steel, due to the carbon being "cooked out" and not able to be hardened, could these grinder marks be them checking to see if they are into "good steel"?

My reasoning is that if the decarb isn't as hard as the good steel, any coating applied to decarb would be prone to a shorter lifespan.
Paint on a concrete wall will last much longer than paint on a 1/2" foam sheet.
 
NJBillK said:
With Decarb being softer than the hardened steel, due to the carbon being "cooked out" and not able to be hardened, could these grinder marks be them checking to see if they are into "good steel"?

My reasoning is that if the decarb isn't as hard as the good steel, any coating applied to decarb would be prone to a shorter lifespan.
Paint on a concrete wall will last much longer than paint on a 1/2" foam sheet.
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This is what I was thinking as well. Maybe run a grinder down it, kind of like a file test to see if your steel is to an acceptable level of hardness.
 
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Thanks Jerry. Figured it was something like that and wasn't being done intentionally just to mark up the blades.

For all we know, they could be using an angle grinder like a sharpie to measure the steel. lol.
 
Well there it is...I'll sleep a lot better tonight!!!
 
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