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Originally Posted by bandersen
I'm not quite sure. I tried cleaned a section and a lot of the yellow came off. That plus the baked on crud on the tubes leads me to think it's nicotine and tar.
Underneath it does appear to be treated with something other than cadmium though. Whatever they used it's corrosion free  |
The yellow is from yellow chromate coating over the base plating which could be zinc or cadmium.
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