Thanks! I'll let you know how it works. My old Zizzo bike has been quite a trooper despite twice being dunked in salt water--but now it's the spokes on the wheels just rusting away. Wish I had tried the Yamalube on Day 1.
Those paint sticks are just regular painters oil paints I use em in my paintings they thin with solvents. Same stuff as what’s in the tubes you see artists use.
yea, its not stainless, its chrome plated steel. i'm not a boat owner yet, but i have a little expierence with rust, may i suggest doing a clear coat paint over that chrome to protect it? i maybe wrong. but its just my first thought.
Once, quite a number of years ago, I was trained on the various corrosion mechanisms that even stainless steel can experience. I'll have to dig back into memory and re-study this. For example, to even say "it's stainless!" is almost meaningless. Plain 'ol stainless usually ,means alloy 304 which (I think) is just carbon steel + chromium...and it can corrode. That pitting should be a good diagnostic tool for me. Other alloys will add molybdenum (alloy 316) and so on.
@@skipjacksailing8986 this is very true, but if you can remember, different alloys corrode with different colors, because when they corrode, they are Oxidizing. so when you add oxygen, it turns into oxide. so, aluminum oxidizes into aluminum oxide and is white. iron turns into iron oxide, which is RED, copper oxidezes into copper oxide, which is green.. and so on..
Agree 100%. So I'm asking the "what do we do about it?" question...As you can see, I elected to simply use coatings to try to stop that pitting corrosion, and that red-rust bloom. If I had seen evidence of bad erosion around those screws, then I be thinking galvanic corrosion (dissimilar metals), but there was none of that. If it's just bad quality stainless (too much Fe, iron), then probably all boat owners are stuck with it to some degree. The bow pulpit stainless has some of the reddish tarnish on the surface.
@@skipjacksailing8986 its either iron oxide or algea. while in the navy. we always just ground it back to metal then paint over it.. but that was 30 years ago.. there are also rust converters, that work pretty well. but i would think the paint job you did should do ok.
