This may not be a new concept to some but I've taken notice to a product at a local Canadian Tire store that is supposed to prevent rust. You install it on your vehicle and it sends current(I'm assuming) through the car body and frame that somehow prevents or delays oxidization. The add says it has been proven on Snowplow equipment for years and has shown great results. The product is also guarenteed for how ever many years.

Now, I'm wondering... how it works, how many here have tried it and what the catch is?

Inquiring minds need to know

Thanks,
Mike

 

Sounds like a good science project...

 

I can't remember what it's called. Seems it's been done for years in boats and underground gas pipes and such.

It's got a sacrificial anode, or something like that maybe.

 

So are we talking milli-amps or "three-Optima-blue-tops-kill-the-cat"-amps?

 

On boats there is usually a little fin at the tail of the outdrive which is designed to corrode. It "takes one for the team" so to speak. I would imagine the system you describe has a vehicular version of the same thing.

Three optima Blues would have some serious amps!

 

It's preventing galvanic corrosion using an electric field. This has been done for many years on ocean-going vessels.

Proven technology, but their product might NOT be. At least the principle it's based upon is sound.

jh

 

A heck just run a couple of 00 leads from your battery to the chassy on a continuos loop. Not sure about rust but it makes for one hell of a anti theft system.

 

As already stated, boats have had these systems for years. Mercury has a system called MERCATHOD. It sets up a small electrical current that forces the corrosion to occur at the anodes of the system (Zinc, magnesium or aluminum - depending on the saltiness of the water) that are easily replacable.

I would think it would be a similar system but who knows how good that one works.

 

wasn't there another thread here on the same topic.?

 

It's called electrolisis. Most Navy ships have zinc bars bolted to the hull to be eaten by electrolisis.

That reminds me of the degaussing we had to do to our ship when I was in the Navy. They wrap the ship with huge electrical cables to demagnatize it. It quiets our ships magnetic "signature" so as to not interfer with the earth's magnetic field. Where there are "disturbances" in the magnetic force field there are targets.

...and I don't mean the Target Stores!

 

Now that's an idea... Would look good on a couple fellas I know lol.

Your idea won't go unnoticed lol

As for the electrolosis, I'd still like to hear some results from someone who has actually tried it. It kind of makes me wonder.

 

So how would you go about electrolizing you're truck?

 

Yep there was and Funcruise had one and he does not like it. Any way here is the link and there is a link to the product in there.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...d.php?t=114122

 

Most of the items you speak of are Zincs.
They have a new product you can get and put in your radiator, just drop in the zinc and the electrolisis eats the zinc and not the radiator.
I think it only works in a liquid like water.

 

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/CP/Introduction.htm This talks about cathodic protection. Without it pipelines would rust out pretty quick. Sounds like the same theory.