HP-2116A chassis (or repairing cast aluminum)

[Jules Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 07:32 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Bob Shannon wrote:
> 
> > I think the actual frame here is magnesium alloy, not aluminum.
> >
> > Any attempt to weld this might be spectacularly bad idea.
> 
> Listen to the man (with an emphasis on "spectacular" in the true sense of
> the word).

Don't know about welding the stuff, but ISTR a website recording
someone's efforts to get a magnesium-cased NeXT to burn - quite the
opposite of spectacular to be honest. (the page was put up well after
the fact, and it was a few years ago that I saw it - no idea of a URL(