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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
GerryBags:
Ero-Shan - that looks to me exactly like the corrosion you get in a coastal environment.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 13, 2018, 08:39:19 pm ---Ero-Shan - that looks to me exactly like the corrosion you get in a coastal environment.
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Could be, especially if the metal was scratched?
GerryBags:
I had some amazing corrosion formations around the stern glands on my old boat. They were electrically connected to the earth system of the boat to stop galvanic corrosion of the wood around the bronze glands (the propellor-shafts being the connection with the water to ground), or steel around the bronze in the case of a steel hull, but it's that dissimilar materials thing again. On the inside of the hull, down in the bilges it is always wet and salty and with the constant use of a liveaboard you get these huge green and white masses building up on hose-clamps, bolts, anything connected to the glands. It's a more extreme version of what happens inside any electrical gadget, like the VHF radio, but it can also happen much further away from the water in areas where winter storms are common.
It ends up looking like this:
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on May 13, 2018, 04:51:44 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on May 13, 2018, 03:48:05 am ---Oh FFS... yer all on about a effing thirdhand Euro-version of American Idol THE GONG SHOW ?!?
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*cough* Thirdhand? The Eurovision song contest was first broadcast in 1956, the Gong Show was first broadcast in 1976. We produce this rubbish, then your countrymen copy it and lap it up. Oh, and of course American Idol (2002) was based on the UK's Pop Idol (2001) and produced by the same Brit, Simon Fuller.
Hardly surprising this whole thing, it's not as if your countrymen don't have previous form: "New Amsterdam", "New York". If you fancy a change again you could try "New Stevenage". :)
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Actually, The Gong Show was based on "Opportunity Knocks" which started on BBC Radio in the '40s; so your show is still a knock-off. As for stealing names for towns, y'all have no room to talk either; there are towns all over your little island whose names are pilfered from the Roman empire.
None of that really matters anyways; where I was going with my comment was "It's a flupping talent show! Who cares?" (And that's a correct answer, BTW) They're always best enjoyed at the end of the season, when you get the "Reader's Digest" condensed version. :-DD
mnem
Hooray for Susan Boyle!!!
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Ero-Shan on May 13, 2018, 11:05:07 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 13, 2018, 10:22:20 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 13, 2018, 10:07:05 am ---Ero-Shan. That corrosion looks like typical stuff you get on steel/aluminium joints. It does it all by itself. I had a Land Rover that basically looked like that all over.
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Yes its the reaction of 2 dissimilar metals in direct contact with each other that will cause that kind of corrosion if they become subjected to moisture so its possible that it might have had some liquid spilled on it or has been in a damp environment for a time.
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The main corrosion appears far from where the 2 metals are joined. This is just weird. Whatever, I removed all the powdery stuff. And from the outside it can't be seen. ;D
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Hmmm... what are the chances it was caused by electrolyte from an exploded cap someone replaced ages ago but never bothered to clean up?
Just a random thought...
Congrats on resurrecting it, BTW. That one looks like it was a real head-scratcher. :-+
mnem
*Toddles off to ded*
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