>I used to work at a place where we made 3/32 dia tube with 10 thou wall by
>the forward impact extrusion process. The material was 6062, the dies were
>carbide of a special grade (I wasn't allowed to know what - it was
>proprietory info) and the lubricant was a witches brew of zinc stearate and
>a compound of calcium mixed up with trike into a solution The Aluminium
>slugs were dipped in this solution and then allowed to dry before going t
>the press. This was a high volume process at well over 5,000 tubes a day.

>"Cliff" aol.com> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:43:46 -0800, Garlicdude garlic.com> wrote:
>>

>>>Ivory soap is 99 and 44 one hundredths pure.

>>
>> Pure what?
>> --
>> Cliff

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>HTH

> I remember my Daughter would load 5 bars in my Davenport every 50
> minutes at the age of 8, she loved it. But she got smart & is working
> for CITI for 65K a year in the IT department . She got smarter than
> her Dad! And she is a very good machinist as I trained her for many
> years. But I told her go where the money is.
>