Variation on the NiTiNOL 60 theme. SM-100 alloy manufactured by Summit Materials. As per official description, it's a tweaked NiTiNol, easier to manufacture and major pros include high wear resistance and it's corrosion proof. Few custom makers are using it, there are some talks about limited edition production knives using SM-100, nothing solid so far. Also, dug up one more GIN-1 steel alias, G2, Spyderco used GIN-1 under this name, added to steel chart.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 18:20:38
Found sortta ok catalog of the German company WSM Werkzeugstahl, even though very few tools steels in the catalog listed under tool steels section, still better than nothing. Almost there with 5100 mark.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 17:20:01
Both components were updated today. Well, worked on them for about 2 weeks or so, went online today. Steel chart is 4.1 and steel graph is 3.8. As usual, you will need to do hard reload, or clear browser cache. Hilights include completely modal dialogs, improved settings dialog for the chart and few other speed and performance improvements. Highly recommended for the users to use setings dialog in the chart and select default standard somethign other than "All", will improve initial loading speed very considerably. You don't need to look at 5000+ alloys at once do you?
Sunday, November 4, 2012 22:12:56
Found GOST 9KH4M3F2AGST, definitely can compete with AFNOR steels in terms of convoluted naming. Anyhow, high speed tool steel, used to make tools(according to description). Interesting specs, especially Ca in its composition, which I donno why is in there.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 22:39:07
Replaced java text ticker on the home page with Javascript ticker. Lately newer browsers don't show much love for java and require java as a plugin, not providing built in module. because of that browser would display install plugin dialog instead of the ticker, etc. That's gone now, javascript is usually there. Fixed bug in the knife steel chart where table column manager was not working, caused by optimized css files. Works alright now.
Thursday, October 25, 2012 20:54:59
Forgot to report :) On 10.21 next version was released to the Google android market and few others as well. Plenty of new features, bugfixes, stremlined UI to be more like the rest of it. Added "Recently viewed" feature as per user request. Dude who requested it, owes me 5 star rating for sure :)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 23:38:14
Wanted to release it last week, but decided to add Recently Viewed feature, one user asked for it, and I figured it was a good idea. Fixed two more or less serious issues with navigation and one graphics glitch. UI is more unified and in line with overall black theme.
Sunday, October 21, 2012 12:21:44
Added two alloys made by Outokumpu, at least one of them is used by British knife company, namely SF.100 steel, and another is E1.30% steel, which is plain high carbon steel, similar to Hitachi Shirogami 1 steel, except not as pure on contaminants(P, S).
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:25:34
Wow, what a surprise form apple, or may be third time was a charm? Unlike previous two versions, review process took 7 business days(9 if we count just days), instead of 10 business days. What a progress :) 30% faster... Imagine that, reviewing small app again and again, with improved efficiency, who says Apple won't innovate and improve. Anyhow added listing support, iphone 5 support and few ui tweaks, designed to improve user productivity.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 20:43:58