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
> >
>