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Unread 06-16-2009, 04:29 PM   #10
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Phil...

The strawing instructions are indeed Howard's (PL), but the reason they stopped strawing and started bluing in 1937 was not metalurgy but strictly to expedite manufacturing... all parts went to the same hot salt blue process because of the pressures of war time.
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