17 Apr
2005
17 Apr
'05
10:32 a.m.
On Apr 16 2005, 21:32, Bob Shannon wrote:
Presumably because of the erroneous idea that magnesium is highly
flammable, and other (common) metals aren't.
The wire filling in the old-type flashbulbs was rarely magnesium,
actually. More common were aluminium/magnesium alloys, or even just
aluminium...
-tony
I think the actual frame here is magnesium alloy,
not aluminum.
Any attempt to weld this might be spectacularly bad idea.
Why? Welding magnesium alloy is done in exactly the same ways as