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Old 4th Mar 2020, 9:32 am   #123
vidjoman
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Default Re: Another Black & Decker Drill

The paint colour is probably due to 'proper' painting. It looks likely that the yellow is Zinc Chromate primer which 'used' to be applied to aluminium and other alloys before applying the top coat. A practice which seems to have been forgotten these days to save production costa.
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