I'm a licensed, professional metallurgist and corrosion engineer. I earn my living by solving corrosion and mechanical issues for power plants, gas turbines and petrochemical plants. I have an article published in the ASM Handbook Corrosion volume.
On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 6:14:12 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > If you have corrosion, odds are, it has nothing todo with dissimilar > metals. It's because you have a place to collect gunk. > However, you could have fretting, which is a combination of contact > fatigue and corrosion promoted by vibration . > > > <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/700c/9ba12a90-2a75-4612-a391-c328cd04ea35.jpg> > > Which gets back to my o-rings being the solution. > > TX PE No. 75665 > > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 5:50:19 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: >> >> electrolysis is killing hair follicles. However, you might get enough >> galvanic difference between a brass valve stem and bare (anodize-free or >> abraded) aluminum rim to promote localized corrosion of the aluminum rim >> >> On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 1:04:34 AM UTC-5, cyclot...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Phil, same problem, causing tube failures? Can you explain the >>> electrolysis issue? >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
