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Re: Storing bricks at low temperatures
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lugnet.general, lugnet.storage
Date: 
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:43:39 GMT
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Geoffrey Hyde wrote:

> Christopher Weeks <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message
> news:FwrEwM.JDs@lugnet.com...
> > 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!
> 
> :-)  That, and the fact that the average American would probably switch to
> plastic the moment someone invents a magnet that attracts plastic.  Hmmm ...
> I wonder how long it'll take for them to invent something that attracts
> ABS??  :-))))

They already have--and most of us post here.  ;)  Run, everyone, before the
Frigidaire people come to turn you all into refrigerator doors!

narf

LFB

PS:  The interior of the units are probably all made of ABS--but the exteriors
are usually laminated steel, IIRC.



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Christopher Weeks <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:FwrEwM.JDs@lugnet.com... (...) Most (...) the (...) :-) That, and the fact that the average American would probably switch to plastic the moment someone invents a magnet that attracts (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)

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