Dick: please click on the links in the original post. There are several charts listing metal strength. I HOPE I found the correct numbers for TENSILE strength. The conversion from long tons to psi is easy, but I tend to transpose numbers frown
ALSO - in those charts I did not find tensile strength of Bessemer steel
Gotta be here somewhere
http://books.google.com/books?id=yyMAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq

I'm still searching for the tensile strength of Remington's Decarbonized Steel, which may only be another name for "Bessemer process homogenous wrought iron".

There is a reference here to 70,000, but that seems high
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...&PHPSESSID=

Also discussed here by Researcher and others
http://www.remingtonsociety.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2097

Last edited by Drew Hause; 02/16/14 07:44 PM. Reason: Edited for clariy
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