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Concerning the notion that OMS tanks do not have this rust problem. This is simply not true. The faber tanks are not hot dip galvanized. If you trap water against the paint, it WILL rust. Hot dip galvanize is a much better process & that's why you don't see this problem in the PST tanks like with the Scubapro/OMS/FABER manufactured ones. Better still than the rust issue, hot dip galvanize without paint does not leave all those paint marks all over your boat that take forever to scrub off either. To solve the rust problem, here is what you do: Take those !@#$&* tank boots off your tanks! From: "David B. Widen" <dwiden@ho*.co* <mailto:dwiden@ho*.co*> Subject: ScubaPro Faber Tanks-Paint Bubbles and Rust Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:18:53 -0400 We had a group of individuals CA, FL, NY, & NJ joint us for the weekend of diving out of Virginia Beach (Trip reports to follow). One very interesting discovery upon removal of my tank boots was rust. Tanks: are SCUBAPRO steel 95s, white, and about three years old. Care: these tanks are VIP as required, washed off with fresh city water after every dive (even quarry/lake), and stand up in my garage when not in use. Result: The paint under the boots hass bubbled and formed pockets for the salt water to collect. I do not know if the paint and water react under the paint as it does in fiberglass boats or not to form an acid compoound. I hope someone out there, in the knows, has the answer to that. It has cause some extensive surface rust (already had two opinions from technicians on this). Several other sets of tanks have been checked and found to have similar conditions with different ages and manufacting date/group. OMS versions, on a limited check group, appear not to have this problem. If you have SCUBAPRO tanks with boots on, remove and check for rust ASAP. Now what is the best preparation and painting to stop this and preserve the metal? David -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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