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Titanium Bolts. Standard Pressed Steel Co. of Jenkintown, Pa. has started producing titanium bolts for air frames and airplane engines. Main advantages of the bolts over the conventional steel type: they are stronger and less subject to metal fatigue, save as much as 1,000 lbs. in a plane's weight. Price: about $100 a lb.
Self-Solder. For the amateur solderer the Hercules Chemical Co. of New York City put on the market Swif, a regular tin-lead solder in a plastic tube. The do-it-yourselfer squeezes on Swif as he would toothpaste, then seals the joint with heat from a match,...