Red Brass VS. Bronze

[george]

Yellow brass is easy to identify. My question is how to classify metals with varying shades of brown in them up to dark reddish brown copper? I know bronze is 90% copper and 10% tin or maybe some other metal. I work in an industrial boiler plant and I am familiar with bronze bodied valves and bronze pump parts. If a piece of metal is any shade darker than typical yellow brass,what is it considered?

[miked]

George please go to the introduction area and a do an intro on youself and scraping experience. We enjoy getting to know people before answering questions.

Next use our search feature at the top right hand corner. There is a mighty wealth of knowlege on the forum if you take the time to read the old posts. Also, welcome to the forum, Mike.

[Filthy]

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