[TheForge] Diesel fuel tank qry (Was: Re: fire steels)

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Mon May 19 02:49:21 EDT 2008


Jerrry: I'm confused, again.
I'd assumed that a dielectric element in a mixed metal assembly would be 
non-conducting, like plastic, ceramic,mica and so on...that wouldn't 
pass on current.
If you use copper, wouldn't that accelerate the corrosion on the iron?
What do i have wrong here?...pete f

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Uh. Yes, bronze dielectrics. Are they made from something else? Look 
> like bronze but you know how copper alloys can fool ya. There's one in 
> every connection between copper and iron in the house plumbing too.
> 
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> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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> 
>> I'm confused, apparently.  I thought you were referring to a 
>> dielectric made of bronze, which doesn't make sense to me.
>>
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