On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 02:38:48 +0100, Emanuel Berg
wrote:
Take one piece of aluminium and one piece
of stainless steel and hold it in ur hand -
they must be the same size, you can feel
the weight different: aluminium is much
lighter, while stainless is much heavier.
It depends on the type of stainless steel. Exotic alloys, complex
heat treatment, and a lengthy annealing process, will produce a
stainless steel that is quite strong and suitable for bicycle frames
(and by implication, handlebars):
http://www.kvastainless.com/tubing-info.html
http://www.kvastainless.com/bicycles/
http://www.kvastainless.com/technical-library.html
The problem is that while steel is fairly cheap, the necessary
elements needed to make stainless (nickel, chromium, vanadium,
silicon, manganese, phosphor, sulfur, etc) will raise the cost. As an
added bonus, stainless work hardens very easily, making fabrication
difficult and expensive.
http://www.qtstools.com/TechInfo/SAE%20steel%20grades.htm
Ferro-chrome ore (which contains about 50-75% chromium), sells for
$2.80/kg (Oct 2017 prices).
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/ferro-chrome/
while iron ore runs about $0.30/kg.
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/iron-ore-fines/
Very roughly, that would make 20% Chromium stainless cost about
$5.00/kg, while a simple high carbon steel, would be about 1/10th the
prices of stainless.
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