Its safe unlike the steel in the video which I have now embedded

Edited By JasonB on 15/02/2016 20:37:58

Ridiculous, I take it that it's so hard it just shatters.

Hi guys, the material shown in the video doesn't surprise me one little bit, for the last few years of my working life I worked for a firm that made tracked mobile rock crushers, along both sides taking the full force of the crusher plate mechanism were 2 rods, a metre long & 25mm diameter with 100mm of M25 thread on the end, made of Indian steel by someone from that region. I happened to be passing through the fitting shop one day when they struck up a machine for the first time, when the young man standing by it with the control pendant started up the crusher plates the rods both snapped like carrots into 3 separate pieces, one of which made a bold attempt to take his head right off! The owner of the company & the shop manager were both present to witness this happen, turning whiter than a first aid box, when they recovered their composure I was asked for my opinion on the incident, ( I have a period as Chief Inspector of a small engineering company in my CV ) so I proceeded to tell them in language that would have made an Italian truck driver blush exactly what I thought of this major penny pinching exercise, culminating in my opinion that anyone buying steel from anywhere east of Scunthorpe needed their heads looking at, but that's just my opinion.

robjon44

The bunker busting bombs are made from shot out large caliber gun barrels. A good recycling method for them. With the large number of artillery ordnance they have the supply should last a long time.

Clive

You don't have to go that far for a 'quality' certified product. Meat pie anyone?

I guess countries with the biggest pools of consumers tend to be service industry driven economies and this provides the opportunity for developing countries to boost their manufacturing in order to help themselves grow and provides savvy business operators the ability to buy labor at a lower rate.

Cold hearted but true.

Michael W

It's easy to forget the guys in the clip are as horrified as we are.

Neil

Did anyone see on TV the 'Reinforced ' multistory building in Tiawan that fell down in the earthquake, where the builders had put empty tin cans in the structure?

If thats anything to go by what use is that re-bar.

Clive

its possible that the rebar isnt designed to take high impact shock forces since the concrete is filled around it when its finished. Is it possible that its simply for load bearing purposes?

This doesn't surprise me! Some of the tool steel that we have come across from India and Pakistan is by far the worst I've ever seen, Huge amounts of silicon, hard spots, soft spots, inclusions and laminations, the stuff of nightmares before you even try to heat treat and work the steel! What worries me most though is the amount of products that are being brought over, 'washed' through EU companies and then passed off as made in Europe from high quality sources!

Looking up rebar it seems it is made from any old metal junk they can throw in. There are specs. with figures quoted at 40K tensile and 60K tensile and specifies some carbon. I could see a load of cast iron going in and then being in the condition seen it that video?It's tough stuff anyway to work as it tends to self harden and has a hard bitty surface. Best left in the scrappy i think.

Clive