dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com wrote: > > So how do steel shipowners prevent rust. Is there anything special in the > steel used in ship construction to help reduce corrosion? Or is it just > paint and chip, paint and chip...... Although I have no real need to know how the following works and so I don't, I have noticed in the marine catalogs some items that are basically sacrificial metal devices that will corrode faster than vital parts made of metal. They draw corrosion induced by electrical charges, I think. Perhaps the best thing to avoid corrosion of your knife and other vital metal items in a kayak is to wear one of these and also use a small battery that will create whatever polarization (negative or positive) that will interact with your corrosion system and affect the sacrificial metal item only. :-) ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 14 2000 - 08:37:57 PDT
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