"Ronald" wrote in message
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Aluminum doesn't rust and is easy to drill, but solder doesn't stick to
aluminum and chassis can be flimsey.

Ever thought of copper ?

Copper is ridiculously soft, heavy, and generally a disaster to machine
(you've got to be pretty slick & use correct cutting tools). Copper
*plated* steel chassis used to be fairly common in early production gear,
though. Yep, mainly to make it easy to solder to. Later, it seems everyone
switched to nickel plating (most steel chassis are nickel dipped or plated,
and it's a pain in the butt to get them looking perfect after something like
a 'lytic has burst & ate through the plating. small copper sub-chassis,
though, are great for lil' stuff...
-dim