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Originally Posted by Kobuchi
Why risk dirtying a facecloth when you can wrap it in plastic before use? Tarnishing of the cap is not a problem - unless scopic chunks of aluminum oxide are actually crumbling off - the corrosion of the cap guards against corrosion problems for the copper/brass. Maybe that's too much for the average customer to digest.
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I am no expert on galvanic corrosion, nor will I claim to be one - but it seems to me that this issue was settled long ago:
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Originally Posted by unregistered
aluminum is a acceptable material, with appropriate precautions:
1) anodize it
2) ALWAYS use a corrosion inhibitor
and if you follow #2, you can skip #1; UNLESS you have a moist air environment (where the corrosion inhibitor cannot protect the surface - as a previous poster did make clear)
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Originally Posted by unregistered
[if not] disturbed corrosion product will drop into the fluid
not good
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I don't see anything really arguable there - you can argue anodes for a boat or a gas fired heater, but that has little bearing on Watercooling in this case