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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4466677, member: 6444"]There is a LOT less stress on a small table compared to a bench/chair. I’m not surprised an aluminum table would survive without damage, especially one that looks to have been kept indoors. Chairs sometimes survive even after 40 years outside if the bolts have been replaced with brass - it is the steel bolts that tend to rust and fail since these were put together with cheap steel fasteners when first put together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heavy is relative - cast aluminum needs to be thick to get any durability at all, so it seems heavy compared to the later extruded aluminum that can be much thinner and lighter. Without measuring specific gravity (density) “heavy” is a pretty meaningless term.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4466677, member: 6444"]There is a LOT less stress on a small table compared to a bench/chair. I’m not surprised an aluminum table would survive without damage, especially one that looks to have been kept indoors. Chairs sometimes survive even after 40 years outside if the bolts have been replaced with brass - it is the steel bolts that tend to rust and fail since these were put together with cheap steel fasteners when first put together. Heavy is relative - cast aluminum needs to be thick to get any durability at all, so it seems heavy compared to the later extruded aluminum that can be much thinner and lighter. Without measuring specific gravity (density) “heavy” is a pretty meaningless term.[/QUOTE]
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