Ever looked at an old radio chassis?
They had what I was led to believe was a grey cadium plating over the steel

The boxes BA11-ES and the like had I think a coat ing was some kind of Nickel
My 11/34A has a greyish coating on the tiltable runners.


On 13/06/2015 21:35, [email protected] wrote:
cadmium not  good  for  you... beryllium is  even  worse!
Ed# In a message dated 6/13/2015 12:51:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

It might  be cadmium


On 13/06/2015 16:45, John Wilson wrote:
On Sat,  Jun 13, 2015 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
So, what  _is_ that grey coating - and, more important, how (if at all)
can  it
be reproduced these days?
Wild guess:  some kind  of oxide?  I agree that it doesn't look like paint
or powder  coat.

John Wilson
D  Bit


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