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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8264298, member: 105098"]The moment they did it the cost of aluminum would go up and make it too costly. It's why they haven't done it.</p><p><br /></p><p>They could do what they do now except for zinc, use a steel core and plate it with copper. Then the cost would be less than a cent. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason they don't is because it's hard to plate steel with copper until you've plated it with nickel or used some proprietary costly solutions to treat the steel so the copper will stick uniformly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8264298, member: 105098"]The moment they did it the cost of aluminum would go up and make it too costly. It's why they haven't done it. They could do what they do now except for zinc, use a steel core and plate it with copper. Then the cost would be less than a cent. The reason they don't is because it's hard to plate steel with copper until you've plated it with nickel or used some proprietary costly solutions to treat the steel so the copper will stick uniformly.[/QUOTE]
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