Posted by Glen of Idaho [72.173.64.58] on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 22:42:38 :
In Reply to: photo posted by David N. Lundstrom [64.68.10.17] on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 22:19:08 :
Thanks, That is part of the automatic hardsurfacing machine I built and operate.
runs two 1000 amp Lincoln welders and 7/64 open arc tubular wire.
The deposit is chromium carbide crystals suspended in a hard iron matrix.