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Jim, During the 1960's Volkswagen Australasia Limited had its own non-ferrous foundry attached to its factory at Clayton near Melbourne. In those days, Australian-made Beetles and Type2s had 100% Australian-made engines. Regards, Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia. Jim Adney wrote: > On 15 Aug 2001, at 12:17, sml214@casbah.it.northwestern.edu wrote: > > > If we assume that VW has their own Magnesium-producing facilities, > > then it is possible that when they heat the concentrated Magnesium > > Chloride salt to past the melting point of Magnesium and perform > > the electrolysis, the molten magnesium is poured directly into the > > mold. This would be a tremendous amount of savings in energy > > costs... does this seem possible? > > Seems quite reasonable to me. It wouldn't even require that VW > own any of this process. Do we know that VW owned the casting > facility, or could it have been done by subcontractors the same as > so much of the other work. > > Clearly the final machining of the case could still take place in a > VW facility. > > - > Jim Adney > jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, WI 53711-3054 > USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe