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| From | Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | aus.electronics, aus.cars, alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y |
| Subject | Re: DIY Electronic Vehicle Rust Prevention |
| Date | 2024-02-27 21:35 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <l45s7vFfurqU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 27/2/2024 7:38 pm, jon@home.org wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:27:21 +0000, alan_m wrote:
>
>> On 26/02/2024 22:05, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> In aus.electronics Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>> chop <chop654@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:36:42 +1100, Computer Nerd Kev
>>>>> <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> I sure wouldn't pay hundreds
>>>>>> for one, but if the root of the thing is just applying simple
>>>>>> electrical signals to the paint surface, it's an easy thing to test
>>>>>> a DIY equivalent on some bits of scrap. Some of the patents contain
>>>>>> useful details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But if there are actual records of people doing such tests and
>>>>>> showing that it's all lies, which I can see myself (not just hear
>>>>>> rumor of), then I wouldn't.
>>>>
>>>> A friend of mine tested this in the lab when I was in college. The
>>>> devices don't work. They've been around for decades and they've never
>>>> worked.
>>>>
>>>> He wrote a paper on it for the class he was in, but I don't think it
>>>> was ever published since it just debunked some junk science and didn't
>>>> actually represent any new and valuable research in terms of
>>>> chemistry.
>>>
>>> That's a shame, it would have been interesting to compare his device
>>> and test rig with the successful Canadian lab tests:
>>> https://www.autosaverobd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ITS-
> REPORT-015-05015-4-_3-15-2007_.pdf
>>> https://www.finalcoat.com/assets/lab_tests/CC_Tech.pdf
>>>
>>> And "Final Coat" have had their device's experimental results published
>>> in scientific papers (the same testing that the Canadian regulator also
>>> accepted):
>>> https://www.finalcoat.com/news.html
>>>
>>> But details of a test done without any financial motivation for its
>>> success would be very interesting.
>>>
>>>
>> It seems strange that I've owed a car for 17 years and when scrapped
>> because of mechanical problems that were uneconomic to fix there wasn't
>> a trace of rust on any of the body panels. My car wasn't fitted with one
>> of these anti-rust wonder products. Perhaps European car manufactures
>> take a lot more care with the paint technology and build quality?
>>
>> In general, from what I see on certain Youtube videos cars that spend
>> most of their life in somewhere like Florida have little underbody rust
>> whereas the same car model that has spent its life in a state where the
>> roads need to be salted for most of the winter have a significant amount
>> of rust. Even on fairly young cars the effort required to remove fixings
>> (bolts etc.) to replace components is higher on cars that have spent
>> their life further North.
>>
>> How representative of rust problems on cars is the test detailed above
>> performed on two body panels? The main problem is not necessarily body
>> panels but rust destroying chassis parts etc. beneath the car.
>
> My Citroen XM had a zinc plated body and doors.
Well, they were in the era when galvanizing was becoming a thing, no
surprise there. What model was yours? They all seem to have been at
least partially galvanized from the outset in 1989. The Yanks only
caught on to galvanizing in the mid 90s.
--
Xeno
Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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