Subject: telling bronze from brass???

From: [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein & Nicholas Carter)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:35:42 GMT

I recently got a cored bar of what I think is bronze, at
my friendly scrap metal yard, but how can I tell?

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From: [email-masked] (John O. Kopf)
Date: 26 Sep 1996 03:04:45 GMT

> my friendly scrap metal yard, but how can I tell?

Try a file -- Bronze is normally much harder than brass, and the file
will tend to slide over rather than removing much metal.

JK