Barrie Robinson wrote:
> I dimly remember my metallurgy lectures at university and I do not seem to
> be able to work this one out. Different metals in contact with each other
> when a electrolyte (water will do) is present causes corrosion due to their
> dissimilar potential differences. So what happens when one uses stainless
> steel bolts in plain jane steel of wings (fenders) etc.? Is stainless
> inactive and appears like plastic to the other metal - or do they rot the
> other metal?
Stainless and aluminum are bad news together, ask any sailboat rigger :-)
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