[ARC5] Cadmium plating

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Sat Sep 3 20:55:21 EDT 2011


I have a number of old ARC-5 receiver capacitors and choke on which what I assume is 
cadmium plating over the brass "flower-pots" has oxidized to a white powder.

I am thinking of buffing this off and having them replated.

However, it seems to me that I have read somewhere that cadmium oxide is poisonous.

Is this true, and if so, HOW poisonous?

Ken W7EKB


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