I am considering getting one to try and prevent or atleast reduce the amount of rust that I keep finding on the F car.

It seem that everytime I polish it I notice yet more screw heads and nuts are getting rusty and these are just the ones I can see not to mention some areas of bodywork are suffering

Could a dehumidifier be the answer?

 

Why not smother the whole car in vaseline

 

Only worth it if your garage is pretty well sealed. Otherwise you need one of them plastic car bubble shelter thingumies.

 

works, atreat mate, me father in law as one and he has had, is MGB roadster restored 16 years ago looks mint to this day!! i do about the sealed garage would work better!!

 

I reckon the money would be better spent on a few tubes of copper grease.

Splodge that on all the exposed screw heads.

And maybe getting someone to Waxoyl the car?

Often advertised in the classic car mags.

 

I got one in my flat. its only a small one but it pulls out 3 litres a day. I think the us navy have loads of them on board their ships to combat the rust. i watched some program about ship breaking etc. where they strip the ships down of all useful parts. they keep them all sealed up with dehumidifiers running on them for about a year. then take all the useful parts out.

i have a digital clock on the wall which tells me how humid the flat is and the temperature. after we have showered in the morning its gives us a reading of around 65%. i put the dehumiderfier on and it brings it down to 43%. May be get one of these first to see how humid the garage is. it could also be the salt conditions from the road which could be causing the problem. some councils use far to much road salt! kills wheels and rust everything!

 

I have in my storage faciltiy - works great and keeps the car in great nick, I was concerned about trapping moisture in the when I didn't open the door for weeks on end.

I would be careful about the grease or vaseline route - that can actually make matters worse - if you trap the moisture underneath its got practically nowhere else to go other than through your car, in the instructions with waxoyl I think they say car needs to be bone dry first for this reason.

 

How much do they cost to run? what sort of wattage would you need for say a double garage, and how often would you need to empty?

 

If you don't mind some advice from the states...

I live in a humid salty tropical environment. The best thing I've found for protecting screw heads and metal is a product called T9. It was developed by Boeing just for that problem.

It works very well I use it on all my equipment car and sailboat.

hope that helps

fltsfshr

 

[QUOTE=fltsfshr,Nov 6 2004, 12:15 PM]If you don't mind some advice from the states...

I live in a humid salty tropical environment.