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Re: Rust on Bohm heater cap
« on: July 30, 2025, 11:54:08 pm »
Scorched steel makes it easier to oxidize ..... and you live right near the ocean in a salt air environment.

Even here in the high and dry of the intermountain desert I find a thin layer of fine rust on the heat caps of some of my Solar Engines and PM Research Stirling Cycle Engines!
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