GreyShark
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- Dec 21, 2008
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Actually, no. Your confusing nitrolon with plastic. Nitrolon polymer is stronger than steel, given that it's made big/thick enough, it could survive much lower temps, but it also has its limits. If it were Arctic kind of temps, I'd prefer alu over nitrolon.
You have to be really careful when you say something is "stronger than steel" because most things that make that claim aren't. First you have to say what kind of steel because they aren't all of equal strength, second what property of strength you're talking about and third under what conditions. For instance people like to say kevlar is stronger than steel. It isn't. Not even close. What kevlar has is high tensile strength and resiliency that when combined with other properties make it an attractive alternative to steel for certain applications. If somebody could come up with a spec sheet on nitrolon I'm sure we'd see it's a similar case.