"Powdered-metal components have come into their own in the last decade, " says Beresford.
The frame is then joined with glue and wrapped in natural fibers and affixed to its conventional metal components.
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She also eliminates all plastic and metal components while designing her garments.
Holding it in your hand, you can tell the Samsung phone's plastic parts are a bit cheaper than Apple's luxury glass-and-metal components.
That argument may or may not be true and really begs the relevant question: Did they know about the potential for strong magnetic fields to move ferrous metal components within their locks?
Weinberg points out that even before consumer 3D-printing became fashionable, gun enthusiasts were already making their own metal firearm components with computer controlled milling machines and posting their designs to sites like CNCguns.com.
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The father-of-two, from east Hull, was part of a team performing a routine service on a large metal press used to make components for Hawk jets.
But really smart connoisseurs of precious white would have stocked up on palladium, a platinum-group metal used in surgical devices, watches and electronic components.
The NIA's Capability of the UK Nuclear New Build Supply Chain study said that with investment, British firms are capable of supplying 90% of the components for new nuclear plants, but the largest metal forgings and some specialist reactor parts would need to be imported.
All the other parts are purchased and the critical components like the barrel and bolt and springs are all metal.
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It was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS plastic - only the firing pin was made from metal.
Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
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