The difference 5 years of cold water made in my air panels

I got into commercial diving around 2018 and back then my air panels looked brand new for maybe a month before they started corroding. Now with the same cleaning routine? They barely show wear after a full season. Honestly I think it's because I finally stopped using hot water to rinse them down. Someone told me about using cold water and a specific soap from a dive shop in Galveston and it changed everything. Has anyone else noticed their gear lasting longer with a different rinse temp?

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alext5213d ago

Did you ever look into the pH of the water you were using before? I heard a guy say that hot water opens up the pores in the metal and makes it grab onto salts and minerals way worse than cold water. That Galveston soap might be doing the heavy lifting too, a lot of those specialty soaps have corrosion inhibitors in them that the standard dish stuff doesn't.

iris_barnes8713d ago

Laughing at the thought of hot water opening up metal pores like your gear is a sponge or something. alext52's probably right that the soap is doing the real work here though, but I'll take any excuse to use less hot water in this heat.

sandra_moore3012d ago

Read a navy report saying cold water helps stop salt from bonding right to the metal, and @iris_barnes87 hot water definitely doesn't help with that.