[ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's

[Leslie Smith]

Hello List:
> "The collected scrap was ground up to make Thermite for bombs. In that
> application, alloy is irrelevant." - John Foster


What?  You mean they had thousands of people working in dozens of
factories, making this "stuff", and after it was made they shipped it
across the Atlantic, only to blew it up?  What's the point in that?

Surely - you've got to be joking, Mr. Feynman.



  Les
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 04:56 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> I have been given an answer off-list that makes much more sence.
> 

> 
> -John
> 
> ==============
> 
> 
> > Alloy 75S (aka 7075) was developed during WW2.
> >
> > Besides most aircraft electronics were housed in aluminum chassis and
> > enclosures along with IF, and other cans, engine pistons, some shipboard
> > USN
> > electronics; even armor piercing shells were made of aluminum.
> >
> > After awhile it ads up and what scrap could be used elsewhere freed up
> > more
> > virgin metal for aircraft alloys.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael A. Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
> > To: <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>; "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's
> >
> >
> >> I'll bet a lot of that AL was used for millions of canteens among other
> >> things.
> >>
> >> FWIW here are a couple of my mementos from WWII. On the left is a
> >> General
> >> Eisenhower medal that I won as a 10-year-old during the war.  Lots of
> >> little kids won this medal by collecting 2000 lbs of paper for the scrap
> >> drive.  Believe me, that's quite a pile for a ten year old.
> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vc1c3bpgd8s74n/IMG_5242.JPG
> >> On the right are a couple rationing coupons that you needed to buy meat,
> >> sugar, and other things that have previously been mentioned.
> >>
> >> We needed no psy-ops with the Gold-Star-Mother banners in the windows of
> >> houses, the constant air raid drills (my dad was also an air raid warden
> >> for our block), the 24-7 drone of aircraft engines being tested at the
> >> factory in nearby Patterson NJ, the training biplanes doing loops and
> >> rolls over the fields around our town, the search lights tracking
> >> aircraft
> >> at night, the oil fires off the Jersey shore, well I could go on and on.
> >>
> >> My parents belonged to the ANZAC club, an arrangement whereby Australian
> >> and New Zealand sailors could live in our house for the few days they
> >> had
> >> shore leave while their ships were in New York harbor. Most amusing were
> >> their comments on the American way of making tea "What is this sopping
> >> little bag for?" and our news broadcasts "You would the Americans are
> >> doing everything!".
> >>
> >> Mike, W6MAB
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  From: Kenneth G. Gordon
> >>  To: D C *Mac* Macdonald
> >>  Cc: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> >>  Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 12:31 PM
> >>  Subject: Re: [ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's
> >>
> >>
> >>  On 8 Jul 2012 at 14:07, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> >>
> >>  > AFAIK, aluminum can be recycled almost endlessly.
> >>
> >>  Yes. Besides, the science of metallurgy was well advanced by WWII.
> >> Trash
> >>  contained in most metals could be fairly easily removed.
> >>
> >>  Ken W7EKB
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