Re: Zinc and Brass

Phonetically speaking:

EYE YEYE YYYYYEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!


Ps I can't take it anymore...I'm going to go eat tomato pie until I
explode and die.




--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Paul W. Esterle" <pesterle@p...>
wrote:

> Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper. In salt water, the zinc

leaches out,

> leaving a spongy, weak, reddish lump where your thru-hull used to

be :-)

>
> Paul Esterle
> Freelance Boating Writer
> pages.preferred.com/~pesterle/
> www.smallcraftadvisor.com
> www.captnpauley.bigstep.com

Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper. In salt water, the zinc leaches out,
leaving a spongy, weak, reddish lump where your thru-hull used to be :-)

Paul Esterle
Freelance Boating Writer
pages.preferred.com/~pesterle/
www.smallcraftadvisor.com
www.captnpauley.bigstep.com

So what's the skinny on Zinc and Brass?

My neighbor is moving and I got a free belt driven 50 year old table
saw that works.