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Rather than have the rubber rot out and the bands slip, or have the bands raised up from the tanks, I ignore it. Painting helps a little, but the reason I do paint them white is really so that is so that my buddy can easily see me in bad vis or in the dark. The oxidation tends to be self-stopping. The patina of oxidation forms a barrier to further oxidation or galvanic action. Besides, by the time you fubar a tank from that it will be time to discard it anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.K. Haywood" <jkhaywood@ya*.co*> To: "George Irvine" <kirvine@sa*.ne*> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: Oxidation and Corrosion of AL > George, > I have a question and was wondering if you could help me out. I have two > sets of double 80's which I recently broke down to get cleaned and vis'd. > Under the bands there was corrosion. I was wondering if I should put a > buffer (plastic or rubber) between the SS bands and the AL tanks or whether > I should just leave them be. Also is there a way to clean off the corrosion > or is that unnecessary. I read that you use double 80's for salt water > diving and was just wondering how yours are set up. Also it seems that all > your tanks are painted white, is that for easier marking or some other > reason. My tanks are all brush finished, no paint , and I was wondering if > the paint helps in any way as far as protection and if so what type of paint > is used. Thanks for any help. > > Karl Haywood > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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