[TheForge] Chemical Questions ?

Tue Nov 12 10:27:01 2002

That all sounds like a great idea and I wish that the client had
as much vision as he has money. It's curious how something
that could be the "Rosetta Stone" to some folks is a "trinket"
to other folks.
dave m

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Chemical Questions ?

> At 08:12 PM 11/11/02, you wrote:
>
>
> Too cryptic; sorry.
> The idea is to attach a mass of a " less noble" metal to the pieces you
> want to protect.  You may want to ground the "zinc" in addition.
> In theory, the zinc will sacrifice itself and preferentially corrode
> first.  Salt water is  as much corrosive fun as swimming pool vapors, I'd
> guess.
> It is a traditional solution for protecting steel boat hulls.  On the
> really fancy new boats, they are sometimes using pure aluminum  as a
> sacrifice annode(?) instead .
> There is also a way to send a small charge through the work that will
> inhibit corrosion and it sounds like your client can afford it....
> ......Does that make any more sense?........Pete
> http://www.peterfels.com/
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>
> >Thanks for your idea Pete, but I don't know what that is.
> >I'm not dealing with a saltwater environment but rather
> >a chlorine one.
> >dave m
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer" <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Dave; I wonder if some sacrifice zincs, like used on a saltwater boat
to
> > > control corrosion, might not be called for?...Pete
> > >
> > >
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