Stateside quality control and retooling on the doors worked out the kinks in subsequent generations, and the new DeLoreans are built on a lighter chassis and can be wrapped in any color or pattern to protect the steel panels.

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For the 12, 000-seat basketball arena, architects at Wilkinson Eyre devised a rapidly erected steel-frame system shrink-wrapped with a white PVC skin, the curved steel stretchers forming a pattern of alternating diagonal projections on the outside.

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The carbon is placed next to the steel die form, and very high voltage is sent between the carbon and the steel, creating a powerful arc of heat, which vaporizes the steel in the desired pattern.

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This pattern continued over the years of the minimills innovating and moving upmarket while the old steel mills ceded the lower ends of the market, because it made financial sense to them to cede those markets.

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