Okay, for what it's worth, I can tell you what NOT to do! Do NOT store any
kind of chrome in the same room/garage as ANY kind of chlorine based pool
chemicals!!! How do I know?
1.) I own a pool. Pool ownership caused me to store chlorine tablets in
corner of garage during off-season.
2.) I own a roadster. Roadster ownership caused parts to be chrome plated.
Slow reassembly caused plated parts to be kept on shelf in garage.
3.) Spring comes. Spring causes unheated garage to become comfortable to
install parts chromed in previous fall. I go to shelf, open boxes of
baggies, open baggies of locks, handles, and other miscellaneous chromed
parts.
WHOOOAAAH (spelling?)! ! ! What was triple plated (copper, nickle, chrome)
show quality chrome was now a powdery, seafoam-green color. Some of it
polished out, some looked worse than before I chromed it.
After subsequent forensic research, the Useful info emerged:
Cause: The one bucket of 3" chlorine pool tablets that was in the original,
un-opened 40# container, 15' feet from the chromed parts. It was also
responsible for some extreme, accelerated, rusting of ferrous (iron/steel)
based items in garage from hand tools, drill bits, etc. to brake drums and
other items in various stages of corrosive degradation.
I posted this warning several years ago, and was responded to by an
individual who also suffered the same bad luck for the same reason in regard
to his motorcycle related chrome work.
This has been a public service announcement and is in no way meant to
reflect the stupidity of it's author.
Mike Hudson '67 - 1600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Putland" <tputland@charter.net>
To: "datsun-roadsters: autox.team.net" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:49 AM
Subject: Chrome storage
> As I get ready to start the teardown of my 1600, I am wondering how people
have stored their Chrome bits and other trim pieces.
>
> I was thinking of picking up some silica or other desicant and bagging the
chrome in sealable bags to keep them dry. But before I go in any direction
at all, I am wondering what people have done. What works and what doesn't to
keep the chorme in great shape. I know that old coins cannot be put into
certain types of plastic sleeves as certain coinage will react with the
plastic--Is this an issue at all with the Chrome? Does any one know?
>
> It gets very humid here in the summer, so niehter basement nor garage will
offer a nice dry storage area.
>
> Thanks for any and all responses!!
>
> PEACE :-)
>
> Tim
> Belleville, WI.
> '70 SPL AND SRL...and now a part car FOR SALE cheap cheap..and again,
until I find another...
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