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On 6/13/15, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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, couryho...@aol.com 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, >> rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com 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 >> > > -- Chris Halarewich