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Re: Storing bricks at low temperatures
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.storage
Date: 
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:45:39 GMT
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"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> writes:
> In lugnet.general, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
> > Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
> 
> > > This may be one place where the US is behind the rest of the world.
> > > Most large appliances in the US are indeed made of enameled steel
> > > at least on the outside.
> > 
> > Yes, and I think I know why.  It's a lot easier to pressform steel
> > into whatever shape you want, and is seen as recyclable as well.
> 
> Ha!  Your naïveté is cute, but misplaced.  One must never
> underestimate the power of the refrigerator-magnet lobby.  Plastic
> appliances...puh-leez!

Exactly my train of thought--the primary purpose of refrigerators is as
magnetic bulletin boards[1], the bigger, the better.
--Bram

1) mostly for displaying magnets, but also for the stuff the magnets
happen to be holding up.


Bram Lambrecht................BramL@JUNO.com
http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/



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  Re: Storing bricks at low temperatures
 
(...) Ha! Your naïveté is cute, but misplaced. One must never underestimate the power of the refrigerator-magnet lobby. Plastic appliances...puh-leez! Chris (26 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)

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