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- From: reb@amc.com (Bob Brunjes)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: American Rifleman = Consumer Reports?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.164744.29565@amc.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:14:37 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <5888@rosie.NeXT.COM> robert_walton@NeXT.COM (Robert Walton) writes:
- #
- #In article <1992Nov14.175828.5451@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- #n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- #[edited stuff]
- ##
- ## BTW, they also did a review on EEA's "windicator" revolvers, which
- ## have frames cast from zinc. They mentioned nothing about zinc, but
- ## did say several times that they were made from "Zamak".
- ##
- ## I couln't believe it. I felt like I was reading G&A or something.
- ##
- ## What could an AR editor possibly have to gain by concealing from
- ## NRA readers the fact that the review gun is a cast zinc "sns", ala
- #Jennings
- ## Raven and Bryco? It's not like AR gets paid for positive reviews or
- ## something, is it?
- ##
- ## Jim Del Vecchio
- #
- , I was disappointed too. I've never heard of Zamak before reading
- #the article. I was also surprised they just didn't come right out and say
- #the Windicator pretty much stank, rather than beating about the bush. I,
- #too, assume they probably don't have as much pressure from advertisers as
- #the other mags do [but maybe I'm wrong].
- #
- Actually the name Zamak has been in common usage for 40 years, that I know of,
- and is the name of _one_ zinc alloy. Therefore, in car parts or firearms,
- Zamak is synonimous with zinc alloy/junk/potmetal/sleaze, and is _not_
- a euphemism or attempt to portray a junk firearm as quality.
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- It's like describing a _particular_ stainless alloy as Monel.
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- Bob Brunjes Applied Microsystems Corp
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- reb@amc.com
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