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One excellent application of a block of tungsten is as a bucking bar for metal riveting. Due to its density, tungsten bars can be much smaller than steel ones, easily fitting into your hand, and fitting into tight spaces. I’ve got a number of tungsten bars and use them almost 100% over my steel bars.



Definitely. The only time I grab one of the steel bars is when it’s in a particular shape that I don’t have in Tungsten.




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