Take a look at: http://www.metal-mart.com/Guides/Galvanic.htm To minimize corrosion you want metals that are close together on this chart. As you can see Aluminum and Stainless are very far apart. The aluminum will corrode quite quickly. You can get the squeeze fittings in stainless and other materials: http://bosunsupplies.com/NicopressSwage.cfm On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 04:36 PM, Evan Dallas wrote: > So just one quick question on the mixing of stainless and aluminum. > When I > last replaced my worn-out rudder cables, I used stainless cable, but > connected it to my rudder using little aluminum sleeves that you loop > the > cable through, then crimp to hold the cable tight. Is this kind of > connection likely to fail prematurely? (I actually did have one fail > already, but I assumed that was due to using a little too much force > on my > crimper). What would be a better way of attaching the stainless cable? > Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 19:04:43 PST
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