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dave · October 4th 10, 02:22 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
On Oct 3, 3:19 pm, wrote:
John Smith wrote:
On 10/2/2010 9:50 PM, wrote:

...
Portable radios were all made of very light materials. Very few had
aluminum cabinets and those were usually high-end models,like Braun .

Aluminum is just not that expensive. Aluminum is even easy to cast and
machine. And, I for one, would pay the additional cost of having a metal
cabinet ... but we remain stuck with plastic junk ... I have gotten rid
of all my old metal radios, the old tubers and transistor rigs. I miss
the cabinets though ... I am surprised China doesn't catch on that a
radio in an aluminum cabinet would take the country by storm. They,
certainly, could manufacture it cheap enough.

Regards,
JS

Aluinum corrodes. You need to use more expensive alloys to beat the
longevity of plastic in the real world.- Hide quoted text -

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Aluminum corrodes ,like almost any other metal,when exposed to acid
rain/salwater. My 50 year-old R-648 /ARR41 (was forced to sell it at
one point) was kept indoors and was absolutely immaculate
cosmetically . It didn't look like an alloy or anodized at all.

Portable radio?