Quote Originally Posted by brianrupnow
Nope, not a casting flaw. Look at the third picture down from the top. That is corrosion, plain and simple. The neck is too heavy to be aluminum, and yet a magnet has only a very small (almost non-existant) attraction to it. I'm pretty sure the damn thing is made of cast "pot metal" some kind of zinc/lead/tin compiliation, then chrome plated. It was cheap to start with, only cost $20 or so. I think this was truly a case of "getting what I paid for".
We call that "Fine China"

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