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Hey Bub!
Good to see you posting here!
I've bid on some of your auctions but always got sniped.
I coulda told you about the rust at the coast, having spent 22 years as a
rust&rot specialist with the Army in Panama. Another thing to avoid,
especially if you have cracks or blemishes in your paint, is parking
under oak, willow or (in the tropics) mangrove trees. All have phenolic
compounds or tannins in their rain drip. It renders surface rust soluble
and exposes fresh metal to rust again. I learned about it in a mangrove
swamp in Panama where things rusted sometimes 2 1/2 times as fast as on
the beach where it was considered some of the worst in the world.
My Panamanian paint job has been cracking in the temperature extremes in
Oklahoma (Zero or below to surface temps of 150 in the summer) and I'm
getting ugly black streaks coming out of the cracks, sort of like the
"ink" that you could make with your 1948 chemistry set using tannic acid
and iron compounds.
BTW on the coast, the wind makes ALL the difference. If the prevailing
wind blows onto the land from the ocean it's really bad, especially with
a lot of wave action. If the wind blows from the land to the ocean, there's
little or no problem because it carries the airborne salt particles and
droplets away from you. That is the difference between the Caribbean coast
and the Pacific coast in Panama. No problem except from moisture on the
Pacific side.
--
George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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