Don't take your magnesium camera around salt air or saltwater. I dropped a
Volkswagen dune buggy into a tidal pool once and the next day the transmission
case started feeling a little spongy and looked like honeycomb...nasty
combination.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> mike wilson wrote:
> > Just because it lasts for a 24hour race or a five second
> > drag does not confer the type of durability we are talking about
> > here.
>
> I was a drag racing mechanic/engine builder in the early to mid
> seventies. My engines all had magnesium alloy intake manifolds and
> supercharger cases. These were 4000 horsepower funny car engines that
> burned 85% nitromethane fuel. The fuel would quickly corrode steel or
> iron parts, but the magnesium (which was hard anodized) seemed
> impervious to it. The parts were amazingly light and quite resistant to
> scratching. They were attached to dissimilar metals, including aluminum,
> with steel fasteners and didn't seem to react to the other metals in any way.
> Paul
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