doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (03/06/85)
Can anyone confirm, deny, or expound upon the following?
I once encountered a problem when I washed an aluminum radio chassis,
where the chassis became "slimy" as a result and nothing I did would
remove the slimy feel. A year or so later I heard (somewhere) that
this was a reaction between lanolin in the detergent I used and the
aluminum. The result was that the aluminum had developed a coating
of aluminum stearate.
Now, your everyday light plane is made of Alclad, an aluminum alloy
with a pure aluminum surface layer. I would think that if the above
story was true, that I'd be hearing horror stories about slimy planes
as a result of having been washed with detergents containing lanolin.
If you'll mail me your comments, I'll post a summary for the net.
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