05-24-2022, 10:51 AM
Chas
The book "AK 1929 catalog says"
"... All steel parts are either cadmium and nickel plated or they are enameled andbaked in immense automatic ovens."
The color looks more cadmium to me (it has a yellowish hue and is not high gloss / reflective).
So, yes, probably not stainless steel. Cadmium is, what they call, a "sacrificial coating" which will oxydized before the steel. Maybe this is why all the chassis' I've seen in AK are so spotless.
The book "AK 1929 catalog says"
"... All steel parts are either cadmium and nickel plated or they are enameled andbaked in immense automatic ovens."
The color looks more cadmium to me (it has a yellowish hue and is not high gloss / reflective).
So, yes, probably not stainless steel. Cadmium is, what they call, a "sacrificial coating" which will oxydized before the steel. Maybe this is why all the chassis' I've seen in AK are so spotless.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
