Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Reifenstahl
English translation:
tire steel (US), tyre steel (UK)
Added to glossary by
i8a4re
Nov 21, 2003 13:48
20 yrs ago
German term
Reifenstahl
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Metallurgy / Casting
Steel
Anyone know what this is? A type of steel manufactured by ISPAT Germany.
Can't find anything on it in Google (perhaps, I suppose, because of certain famous people with the same surname).
Can't find anything on it in Google (perhaps, I suppose, because of certain famous people with the same surname).
Proposed translations
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Gareth McMillan
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Proposed translations
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Gareth McMillan
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The steel woven wire used to reinforce road tyres.
So:
Tyre steel, tyre wire.
Don't know if there's an insider word for this in English. Maybe someone else knows one.
So:
Tyre steel, tyre wire.
Don't know if there's an insider word for this in English. Maybe someone else knows one.
Peer comment(s):
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transatgees
: I'd go for the more general "tyre steel" unless you are certain that this ISPAT plant makes drawn wire. They may sell tyre steel in the form of rod or billet for further processing by others, in which case it would be wrong to call this product tyre wire.
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David Moore (X)
: ....with tyre steel; reasonably good response on google (t*I*re for the USA)
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Mike McDonald (X)
: Staying with the billet idea, they could be for making seamless railway wheel steel tyres, using the patented Krupp process: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp
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Richard Benham
: Don't see where tyre/tire steel can actually be wrong....
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RNolder (X)
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Discussion
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