--- dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
(...) I've seen it a lot on older radios. It is
easy to spot, the metal
is all expanded and crumbles.
That condition (called "Zinkpest" in German) is also well known (and loathed!)
for attacking the rotor disks in some types of old pinwheel calculating machines,
especially those made in GDR and Russia.
So long,
--
Arno Kletzander
Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen
www.iser.uni-erlangen.de
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