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- From: osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: brass guns??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.010029.4714@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:09:47 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Twilight Zone
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- In article <1993Jan24.020640.16577@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
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- ##Most bronzes (other name form brass, contrary to myth) will be stronger
- ##that zinc and its alloys. One passible exception is Zamak. I've made a few
- ##castings using this metal and it did not impress me AT ALL. Pretty cheap
- ##stuff.
- #
- # I thought Zamek was a type of zinc? You mean it is brass?
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- Please forgive my poor sentence formulation. The exception I was speaking of
- was of zinc alloys, of which Zamak is one. Apologies.
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- -Andy V.
-