Subject: Re: casting surgical steel

From: [email-masked] (Kurt Rieder)
Date: 13 Sep 1996 03:40:42 GMT

anseideman ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Can anyone assist in source for equipment and material for casting
: surgical steel.  This is the material used for ring manufacture which I
: inquired about in a past post.  How does one go about finding this type
: of material in small lots, ie. pounds rather than tonnes.  Would
: equipment exist for this type of small item fabrication or would it be
: sort of rigged home made?

Laura... be aware that, "surgical steel" is not much more than an 
advertising buzzword.  Are you talking about razor blades ? nail
clippers ? scalpels ? hemostats ?... all commonly hyped by that name.
I can't imagine why you would want to make a steel ring.  If you want
to work with any kind of steel on a small scale... your talking vacumn
melting.