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| S. Heslop:
That's interesting to read. I've heard of it before in the context of bearings and also in a few older lathes switching over to zamak parts, implied as a cost cutting measure. So I was thinking of it in my head as the classic mystery pot metal and not really a useful structural material compared to aluminium. It's low melting point definitely makes it worth keeping note of. |
| Fergus OMore:
Simon 'Chinese metal' appears regularly in such things as vehicle carburetors and in model engineering, the feed nuts on Myfords are a zinc alloy. One fault is that it does corrode until after a certain point it will be nothing more than white fluff! Chemically, it is somewhat worse than cheap brass. However, it is easy to cast and I have rather a nice Unimat clone lathe made from -- lots of it. Probably 'metal' for typesetting is something similar. I hope that I haven't stolen the original post-- but Simon did ask Norman |
| seadog:
That would be Mazak, Fergus. |
| Neubert1975:
:beer: ;-) |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: Neubert1975 on July 15, 2018, 07:24:57 AM --- :beer: ;-) --- End quote --- I thought that I'd written about this - before my world was thrown topsy turvy. Ah well, it's an absorbing post- thanks Norm |
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