Patrick and Tony,
Thank you for your prompt and authoritative advice. I am reassured and a little bit more knowledgeable now. Best wishes, Geoff From: Patrick Powers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 September 2012 09:10 To: Geoffrey Thurston Subject: Re: Does stainless steel react with bronze? Hi It should be fine. I have personally tested it! I used to have a narrowboat on the canals. It had a bronze bearing where the prop shaft went through the mild steel hull. That bearing was originally fixed with ordinary low carbon steel bolts. These soon corroded (in only 18 months or so), letting the bearing come free and nearly flooding the boat. Replacement with stainless bolts solved the problem and there was no trouble thereafter. Stainless steels and the brass/bronze alloys are close in the galvanic corrosion table so there is very little corrosive action between them. Regards Patrick From: Geoffrey Thurston <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 8:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Does stainless steel react with bronze? I should be grateful for advice on whether stainless steel security screws may be used to fix a bronze plate without generating a reaction between the two metals. Best wishes, Geoff _____ --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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