When the C8 Corvette first debuted, Hennessey Performance Engineering laid out some extremely ambitious plans it had for the car. The Sealy, Texas-based tuning shop was to develop a 1,200-horsepower ...

This video shows a knife forged from differential gears with unknown alloy content. Gear steel resists shaping and punishes ...

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The same properties that qualify tool steels for tools and dies are also used for other parts that require resistance to wear, stability during heat treatment, strength at high temperatures, or ...