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- From: robert_walton@NeXT.COM (Robert Walton)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Zamak = Zinc?
- Message-ID: <5917@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:16:05 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov18.164744.29565@amc.com> reb@amc.com (Bob Brunjes)
- writes:
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- # 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.
- #
- # It's like describing a _particular_ stainless alloy as Monel.
- #
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- #
- #
- # Bob Brunjes Applied Microsystems Corp
- # Redmond, WA
- # reb@amc.com
-
- Hmmm...
-
- Well I think I would take issue with Zamak being "in *common* usage",
- unless talking about the metallurgical community :-)
-
- I've been shooting for 20 years and have never heard of it (or don't
- recall having heard it). You are clearly quite a bit more knowledgable
- than me on this topic, and I suspect more knowledgable than about 90+% of
- the others out there who read the article. I haven't heard of Monel
- either.
-
- Metallurgically Impaired, but shooting straight,
-
- :-)
-