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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:27:40 -0500
- From: Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: historical question
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- >It is still used for various outdoor applications, hollow
- >sheet lighting and power poles being one you see around here.
- >The New River Gorge bridge in West Virginia is all Cor-ten,
- >apprently bids are out for sand-blasting and painting, since
- >corrosion has been faster than anticipated.
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- Incidentally, the USX Tower (formerly, the U.S. Steel Building) in
- Pittsburgh has an exterior made of Cor-Ten steel. It has turned a
- brown-black color, and the concrete around Steel Plaza is stained orange.
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- I hope for USX's sake Cor-Ten performs better than it did at New River
- Gorge--I'd hate to see them paint the USX Tower, say, green...
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- Jason Togyer, Civil Engineering, CMU (Carnegie Tech), Pittsburgh, Penn.
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