Moving to the oregon coast in a week or two. I looked and looked , but the most suitable rental I found was 2 blocks from the beach with a brackish canal in the backyard. I have a lot of cast iron and high carbon steel and precious little stainless steel. We will only be there a year or so and the amount of time I will have to work in my shop will be precious little. Any body give me an idea about how damaging that salt air will be? What can I protect my 2500$ tablesaw with? Should I just store my gear elsewhere and risk the creeping insanity? Are my plane irons at more or less risk? Would it make sense to go machine free for a while?
Dustin
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Dustin! Dustin ... if we knew the answers to those questions we'd be rich.
I once went woodwork-free for a number of years ... but it just wouldn't (pardon the pun) go away. Now tooling-up and happier. Ang buying wood, and that's more fun than watching my national rugby team beat the Australians!
I'm on the Wash. Coast and I have been told to keep a fan circulating the air, or put your stuff in a heated storage facility.
As our house was being buit, I kept my tools in a storage facility, or in the garage that we were renting. Both locations are within 2-4 blocks from the ocean or bay. Both had a dehumidifier that was purchased from home deopt for about $200 each(I think). I usually emptied the tanks of water once a day. They seems to work well and it has been about a year now. Very minor surface rusting, if at all. Nothing a Scothbrite would clean up.
If I was to do it again, I would try the fan first, before buying the dehumidifiers
I live on Whidbey Island, WA., about 100 yds from Puget Sound. I have had my MiniMax 300 Combo and bandsaw for almost 1 yr and have not had any rust problems. My shop is my garage which is very well insulsated and stays around 55 degrees during the winter. I also have a 5kw electric heater I run to bring the temp up to 65 or so when I am working in the garage. I use Boeshield on all of my cast iron and so far so good.
Jim
SWMTMH's family live a stones throw from Vinyard Sound (southerly side of Cape Cod). There does not seem to be a rust problem with anything in their basement, and I am not aware of them taking any particular precautions.
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