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<blockquote data-quote="piggywig" data-source="post: 9135" data-attributes="member: 350"><p><strong>Keeping corrosion away.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Lindie,</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Seems a pity to have all that shiny bare metal exposed to our high humidity atmosphere, even more so with a cyclone bearing down. I live further down the coast of Qld. where the wind is merely blowing a bit with heavy rain, but still the year round humidity is ever present. My rebuilt bike now lives in the basement tucked into a U.K. produced air filled bubble, safe from all moisture, dust and assorted sub-tropical bugs etc. It's mains powered for a few cents per day and also keeps the bike battery fully charged which doubles as standby power for when a cyclone blows the main power away. Prior to buying the 'Carcoon" condensation and corrosion took hold on the resting (30 yrs.) bike, so after a two year renovation it now gets to stay clean and dry between the weekly periods of action. (Of course, it will not help if the flood water floats the bike and bubble away)..................There is an importer of said Carcoon on the Gold Coast, not cheap, but less so than a Vincent reno! A web search will reveal all. Another type is 'Permabag' and again a web check will find it.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Perhaps your bike lives in the lounge in air conditioned comfort, in which case all this info can be safely ignored. </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> After all the effort being put into your restoration it should be a great moment when it is finally fired up again, a never to be forgotton event. </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Col.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="piggywig, post: 9135, member: 350"] [b]Keeping corrosion away.[/b] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Lindie,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] Seems a pity to have all that shiny bare metal exposed to our high humidity atmosphere, even more so with a cyclone bearing down. I live further down the coast of Qld. where the wind is merely blowing a bit with heavy rain, but still the year round humidity is ever present. My rebuilt bike now lives in the basement tucked into a U.K. produced air filled bubble, safe from all moisture, dust and assorted sub-tropical bugs etc. It's mains powered for a few cents per day and also keeps the bike battery fully charged which doubles as standby power for when a cyclone blows the main power away. Prior to buying the 'Carcoon" condensation and corrosion took hold on the resting (30 yrs.) bike, so after a two year renovation it now gets to stay clean and dry between the weekly periods of action. (Of course, it will not help if the flood water floats the bike and bubble away)..................There is an importer of said Carcoon on the Gold Coast, not cheap, but less so than a Vincent reno! A web search will reveal all. Another type is 'Permabag' and again a web check will find it.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] Perhaps your bike lives in the lounge in air conditioned comfort, in which case all this info can be safely ignored. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] After all the effort being put into your restoration it should be a great moment when it is finally fired up again, a never to be forgotton event. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] Col.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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