Retail Prices for CAST BATT™ products: EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2008: BATT™ 6"______________$90.00 BATT™ 8"______________$135.00 BA5T™________________ $210.00 (I amWAS betting tin prices did not go much over $17,000/Ton this year. ) Look at this obscenity! $24,000 a ton! When the BATTs were first made it was $6,320!!! BATT™ DEVELOPMENT-Past, Present, Future. Latest tips and tricks from the BATT Cave! BATT™ BRIEFS! PAGE BACKGROUND: BATT™ Grain Structure. BATT™ is a Trademark used to represent a proprietary alloy, principally of tin, which contains alloying metals of low or no toxicity which harden and deoxidize the alloy and establish certain grain structures which are developed by a specific annealing and quenching process. I do not buy cheap commercial Straits Tin for my laps. Lead content batch to batch runs < 35 Parts Per Million.(Refiner's CofC.)

BATT™ alloy laps are now used by thousands of gemcutters. . Because they are solid castings, they may be resurfaced many times, to provide years of use! Comparative Hardnesses of some lap alloys: ALLOY__________Hardness, Brinell: Pure Tin___________ 5.3 63:37 Tin/Lead solder:__14 95/5__________________14 Britannia Pewter_____22.5 Sn die cast YC135A___29 BATT™________________32.5 Commercial Rolled Zinc____43 Microstructure complexity of BATT™ Alloys: (Why they work.) BATT™: Fractal Dimension: 1.862 BA5T™: Fractal Dimension: 1.5247 Benoit Information Dimension Method. BATTs CUT FLAT FACETS! PROOF HERE! Thanks to Tom Herbst for interferometry testing and permission to reprint! BATT™ Users' Tips and suggestions.

How to charge a new lap. Resurfacing Service for BATT™ Laps. BAT5T™: FASTER/HARDER/FINER Ordering Information: Buy your BATT ™ laps from one of these STOCKING DEALERS Or: ORDER ONLINE: BATT™ WARRANTY AND CUSTOMER SERVICE POLICY