GB> Acid Core Solder

[Roy Morgan]

At 10:00 AM 6/16/02 -0400, Richard H. Arland wrote:
>Yesterday a box arrived from California with a Knightkit VTVM  ...
>  ... there was a peculiar whitish coating on all the mild steel hardware.


I wonder if it is just oxidation of the cadmium or other plating on the
steel. I have seen that kind of thing, sometimes yellowish white, one old
military gear.

I suggest not eating it.

Roy


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