Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
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Does mild steel and stainless react negatively? Application - using stainless bolts to fasten a neoprene seal to a mild steel tailrace gate.
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RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
The tailrace gate will be exposed to the weather 99 percent of the time, in a climate with a temp. ranging from approx. -25 to +25 celsius (with a considerable amount of salt spray). The other 1 percent the gate will be submerged in the north atlantic ocean.
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RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
In a highly electrically conductive media you will get serious galvanic corrosion of the steel near the SS fasteners.
With these exposed to the air and spray you will probably also get serious corrosion of standard 18-8 (304) fasteners.
You are better off with very over sized steel hardware and living with long term general corrosion.
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RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
RE: Mild steel and stainless steel reaction?
In the last 20 years most have been installed as 100% duplex SS, structure and fasteners.
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