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Old 02-07-2018, 03:41 PM   #18
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Default Re: [Cutting-Edge Armor Design] Real World SCA-legal Armour and Ballistics Armour

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Originally Posted by safisher View Post
Assuming it's just steel, AFAIK, it's probably not that hard. A few thousand, say.
I'll get to the rest of the post later, but I understand that abrasion resistant steels with a hardness around 500 are usually alloys of high-carbon steel, chromium-molybdenum, manganese and maybe a few other things. They are usually proprietory by manufacturer.
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