[I cannot think of a name]

My how times change.

In the early 2000’s we had to make some parts out of tungsten.

Making them out of gold would have been half as much.

[Venturer]

I was wondering why they didn’t fill them with lead.

[Calvin Locke]

I saw this in some 1970s tv show/movie shortly after gold became legal to own in the US again.

The team “borrows” a colleague’s newly purchased gold investment bar to push as the randomly selected bar from the gold-coated tungsten stash they’re selling to some criminal.

The pushed bar is sawed in half, they get the money, swap the real cut bar for a faked cut tungsten bar, and skedaddle.

The criminals use a power saw on other samples, revealing the white tungsten.

Obviously, the ending scene is where the colleague gets his bar back in pieces and filings.