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Old 11-21-2000, 05:16 PM
David Chapman
 
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Re: Amphi gets a heated garage...


> Amphi is now warm, the cats are warm too but their bilge won't
freezes

The heating is a good idea, my garage where the Amphis sleep is heated (and
carpeted !!) but more important is humidity, I have a dehumidifier going for
about 6 months of the year, it costs just pennies to run and it pulls up to
a gallon of water out of the air each day.

This really does make a difference to rust and other corrosion problems, I
can leave a sheet of steel unprotected for weeks and it just doesn't rust,
very different from my non dehumidified garage !

There is a magic number for percentage of humidity below which nothing
rusts, I can't remember what it is, I try to stay below 70% but thats not
always possible !


David Chapman in the UK (where it is very wet - hasn't stopped raining for
more than a few hours since September !)




        
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