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<p>[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 573013, member: 7957"]Your repaired die theory makes sense to me and that was the first thing I thought of - but how? Do you really think that a screw would hold after the pressure cracked a solid hunk of metal? I am not sure just what technologies that had available to them at the time. I am pretty sure they had no welding, but did they have any other method of fusing metals? The only thing that comes to my mind would be a mother of a collar. The 5 o'clock break had a smooth break and thus slipped further up into the collar while the 12 o'clock had a ledge big enough to keep it from slipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mostly rambling, but those are my thoughts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 573013, member: 7957"]Your repaired die theory makes sense to me and that was the first thing I thought of - but how? Do you really think that a screw would hold after the pressure cracked a solid hunk of metal? I am not sure just what technologies that had available to them at the time. I am pretty sure they had no welding, but did they have any other method of fusing metals? The only thing that comes to my mind would be a mother of a collar. The 5 o'clock break had a smooth break and thus slipped further up into the collar while the 12 o'clock had a ledge big enough to keep it from slipping. Mostly rambling, but those are my thoughts.[/QUOTE]
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