CorrosionX

[Eric Brown]

My home made spray devise is a hand held fire extinguisher bottle with an inner tube filler valve installed on it for compressed air charging. The wand is a 6 ft long 3/16" brake line with small holes drilled in the end and attached to the extinguisher discharge trigger. I used this unit successfully on my previous C150 wings, but I was spraying ACF-50 which is much thinner than the aviation Corrosion X. With the X alcohol mix, it at least gave me a "dispersed ooooze" from the wing strut attachment point to the wing tip area. I had the wing on a rotating rack and could position it every 90' for dispersion and penetration. For the rest of the wing I used a siphon sprayer. With the next such project, I'll go back to using ACF-50. The Corrosion X is foul smelling stuff. That means it must work, right ????

[Eric Page]

The Corrosion X is foul smelling stuff.

Indeed it is.

Funny story: My last home, in Phoenix, had its air handler situated in the attic, where it was placed by crane before the roof sheathing was installed. You can imagine the trouble and expense involved in replacing that unit at the end of its life. While replacing a failed thermostatic switch inside the unit, I noticed that its heat exchanger was showing significant corrosion. Wanting to avoid replacing it due to loss of refrigerant from a rust penetration, I decided to spray it with CorrosionX, which I happened to have a quart bottle of in the garage. It did a very nice job stopping the corrosion from getting worse, but being inside the house was virtually unbearable for the better part of two weeks afterwards, and it took more than a month for the odor to dissipate completely!

Incidentally, the guy who bought the house from me walked through it once, made an above-asking-price offer and waived inspection. Houses are like airplanes; never waive inspection!