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Old 05-28-2017, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by grybrd123 View Post
Pickup by a magnet is not a general test for metal. A magnet will only pick up steel - not copper, aluminum, or good stainless. Your bits sure look like some sort of metal.
It's definitely metal, just not magnetic. (I just realized I wrote "metallic" instead of "magnetic" above and fixed that.) Feels like copper.
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