5 Dec
2020
5 Dec
'20
2:19 p.m.
On Dec 5, 2020, at 1:41 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thought you folks might be interested in a quick update on my folly here.
At the beginning of November I drove down to the bay area to pick up the
two fire-damaged PDP-11 systems -- a PDP-11/70 and a PDP-11/45. (I also
made a few other stops and got a few other items, but that's not what I'm
here to talk about...)
...
The 11/45 is considerably further gone. It took a serious amount of heat,
enough for the pig iron frame for the front panel to start melting (
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/1170/1145.jpg).
It looks pretty bad, but it's not quite as bad as what your words suggest. I doubt
that frame is iron. Consider that the rails of the rack are corroded but not visibly
warped, let alone melted.
I would guess the bezel is potmetal or some other low melting point cheap alloy. Potmetal
is a zinc alloy, it melts very easily.
paul
