Reminds me of the quote I've heard (sounds like Mark Twain, but I don't know
the source):
"Good judgement comes from experience, and most experience comes from bad
judgement."
Doesn't sound like any bad judgement was involved in this case, though.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
www.gordon-glasgow.org
"The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
- Mahatma Gandhi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net]On Behalf Of Mike H.
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:31 AM
> To: Tim Putland; datsun-roadsters: autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Chrome storage
>
>
> 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
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