Composite handle info

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Composite handle info

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I've acquired a few older eyes this past year...and I'm wandering about the stability of the composite handled ones? The cracked-ice and yellow-handled ones in particular. I'm thinking the older yellow-handled eyes are celluloid...not certain what the "cracked-ice" is composed of?? Do these knives need to be kept separate...or are they stable?
Thanks for any information shared!
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Contacting the Olbertz factory I wasn´t able to find out when they stopped to use cello. They said they uyed both cello and acrylic the same time for quite a while. In my opinion especially the "cracked ice" is acrylic. I am not sure about the yellow composite by I am leaning towards acrylic too. ::hmm::

Of course I would be happy to be corrected in this.....
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The yellow shrinks a little but doesn't gas out, at least I have never had it happen.

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Thanks Frank and Ray...appreciate your time and info. ::tu::
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eye produced both yellow plastic & cellouid in the same time frame. 2 cells made in late 70s or early 80s that were bad were a whttler in christmas tree & a trapper in in swirl grey.HiPower
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