stainless steel setting/leveling plate to A36 base plate

[cdelle]

Is it acceptable practice to use a stainless steel leveling plate when the column base plate is A36 steel? Are there any dissimilar metal interaction issues with this? The environment is an industrial facility subject to acids.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

What is to keep the acid from geting around or over the SS baseplates??

 

[cdelle]

Well, that is a good question. It is an owner requirement that they seem to have had success with in other applications.