At 10:11 PM 5/30/00 -0500, Lee Roesner wrote:
>A while back someone had written in about an electronic rust control
>device. I have been following up on it since and only recently had my
>email been forwarded from australia back to pennsylvania and was contact
>via phone last week. I have a limited understanding but this is what I
>picked up in our phone conversation:
--snip--

These have been around for a long time.  A lot of folks who have shelled
out the $300-$500 for one of these type of systems swear by them.  Most who
didn't pay for them, consider them junk.  Looks like a case of not wanting
to feel like a sucker.

The P.O. installed one of these in TURD before I bought her.  It was
running all the time and accomplished 2 things:

1) Dead battery every time I parked it for 4 to 5 weeks.  Remove the unit
and no more draining problems.

2) Rust where the pads were mounted.  The unit had 4 additional contact
pads.  Where each one was mounted the car rusted.  That and seem rust is
worse on my van that any other '82 I've seen.

These results are not scientific, but the theory of why they work is
negated by the lack of an earth ground.  When fighting rust there is no
miracle cure.  Hard work and great prevention are the only real
solutions.  Or move to the desert :-)

Good Luck, and save your $300

Chris Smith
'82 Westy
'74 Thing
Some cars that run