[TheForge] Spring steel (and other) breaking in mild acid

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

On 8/25/2011 9:44 PM, peter fels wrote:
> That was my first thought, but it was very mild acid and did the same thing to bering races.
> I've cut and exposed hundreds, if not thousands of coil spring and garage door spring loops to heavy salt corrosion,
> and seen very , very few failures. A fair # of those were actively flexing in wind powered kinetic pieces.
> Salt water corrosion selectively seeks out small fatigue cracks.
> Clyde's results were very odd. He is an excellent observer.
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Look up hydrogen embrittlement.

Charles