Date:         Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:57:28 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ONE MAN only out of many
Comments: To: Chad Lyles <chad.lyles@gmail.com>
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What if you were to coat the neck of the part in POR-15 or epoxy enamel?
Would that provide enough of an electrical barrier to protect the aluminium?

On Nov 29, 2007 10:53 AM, Chad Lyles <chad.lyles@gmail.com> wrote:

> this is a great idea!  but like you said ... pulling it off would probably
> be quite a feat!
> keep the think tank turning!
> C~
>
> On Nov 29, 2007 9:59 AM, Ben Cichowski <cichowski@montana.edu> wrote:
>
> > I enjoy taking a stab at things, even if I get it wrong...which I often
> > do...
> >
> > Depending on the the components you are talking about, it seems like it
> > might be possible to install something analogous to a sacrificial anode
> -
> > like a magnesium ring on the opposite side of the rubber/metal
> interface.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you would pull something like that off
> > for,
> > say, a rubber gasket on an aluminum block... But it all has to start
> with
> > an
> > idea.
> >
> > OK...commence with the "this guy is an idiot" posts! :)
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> >
> > On 11/29/07 10:11 AM, "Zoltan Kuthy" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET> wrote:
> >
> > > Probably the most important question to answer is; what makes
> corrosion
> > > between rubber and aluminum?  The other is; how to avoid it?
> > > Although, I have put this question up more than once within a year,
> > nobody
> > > even attempted to try to answer it, but ONE.
> > > This list is fighting and dreading this symptom the most, yet there is
> > not
> > > enough knowledge to know how to stop it.
> > > Is there more than ONE out of the hundreds of members who knows, or at
> > least
> > > think he knows?
> > > Anyone?
> > > Zoltan
> > >
> >
>



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