Carrier armour manufacturer?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Richard, Rob's post states the use of Austenitic rods. My understanding is that this type of stainless steel contains both nickel and chromium. To my simple un educated mind that is stainless.

Lynn,
We had a thread going on this armour plate welding rod subject about 3 years ago. I quoted then from a WW2 REME welding manual for repairing armour (even has details regarding German armour) and the rods were austenitic armour plate electrodes, comprising of 18% chrome and 8% nickel, the coatings contained special substances for welding armour plate. It is true that stainless steel rods are of the same percentages as above but to quote the manual " if armour plate electrodes are not available welding may be attempted with ordinary Stainless Steel electrodes."

So to answer you question there was a difference between Austenitic Armour rods and plain Stainless Steel ones when they were building these vehicles.