On Jun 25, 2011, at 6:00 PM, David Beierl wrote: > Bob, my impression is that's not the case here in the salt belt. Indeed, that's my "qualifier" in my follow up post. We get some of that here. The 3 shops I deal with here (salt lake) who do exhaust work exclusively, all say they find interior pipe rusting as the primary cause of system failure. It's not so much a factor with newer aluminized steel pipes which will corrode, but not nearly as fast as old mild steel. b |
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