Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] protecting aluminum parts

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)]

Powder coating is a way, anoziding an other. A third way is a acid
aluminium primer and than epoxy paint. A seawater resitant aluminium
will be also a way - maybe polished.. 

David Buchner schrieb:
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> On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 08:14 AM, Alec Smyth wrote:
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>      I?d be much obliged if anyone with unprotected Al parts on their sub share their experience on this. Anoziding looks nice but on a part this size would be very expensive (extrapolating from what I?ve paid for much smaller parts, probably in the order of $500). I?m not sure whether to: [snip]
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> Has anybody looked into powder coating? The guy I bought my boat (http://customer.wcta.net/buchner ) from, in Tennessee, has a powder coating business where he does the frames for race cars, and he swears by it and says it's much better, harder, stronger, etc. than anodizing. I don't know anything about either, so I can't judge that part, but that's what he said. His original plan was to re-do this aluminum boat in that stuff instead of its original blue and gold anodizing. But here's my point: this particular guy had all this extra stuff laying around the shop, porch railings and radiators and magazine racks and so on, that his friends and neighbors drop off and he hoses down with magical electrosticky powder when he has time. And it comes in wacky colors.
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> So you need a friend like that, maybe.