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Old 20th Mar 2019, 12:57 pm   #14
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Default Re: Steel chassis resto How to ?

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Originally Posted by Bazz4CQJ View Post
Yes, Colin, sodium chloride plus iron and steel (and any other metal for that matter) bad, my tongue OK . IIRC, you're a professional chemist...

In the days when felt-tipped pens usually had ink based on chloro-carbon solvents, the company I worked for went to great lengths to find pens which were chloro-free (for writing on piece-parts), out of concern about corrosion.

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Yes, you are quite right about me being a research chemist - before I retired. I would have thought that chloro-carbon solvents wouldn't release chloride ions, more likely chlorine radicals. But I suppose it is possible that chloride ions could be generated by some mechanism and be nasty to the metal.....Better safe than sorry.
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