Re: [VFB] Salt Water Materials

[Mark Delaney]

The rule of thumb is to not use dissimilar metals.  Practically, use stainless steel hooks, and you won't run into many problems due to eletrolysis.  Just make sure you sharpen the stainless hooks before you use them.  Typically they are relatively dull coming out of the package.  For the very small amounts of metals used in todays flash type materials, we don't even worry about the effects at all.  Copper and stainless steel don't have any problems when being used together. 

Mark Delaney

On 4/25/06, Rene Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Gang,

I started to ty for an upcoming adventure in September, my first flies
for the salt.
Question:
What about the materials, especially the metals? When I put different
metals (like copper, steel, zinc) into water, e little bit of
electricity is generated, in saltwater the generated voltage is a bit
higher - at least technically. For sure not dangerous, but it might have
2 effects: More issues with corrosion and it produces a bitter smell.
Try to put both electrodes  of a little battery (say 4,5 V) on your
tongue, you will see what i mean. (Pleeeeeaaaaassee, kids, no
experiments, no joking with higher voltages).
When I look at my flies, there are a lot of different metals on it: the
hook, some lead, eyes from copper, flash materials (Aluminium?), maybe
some tinsel.
Has anybody thoughts on this?

Rene

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