Afer seeing what happened to a StuG being taken from it's war time grave and left to the elements, I must say that these things can be preserved with little investment.
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I have been involved with active/inactive US military tactical equipment preservation for years, preserving the fleet and keeping the fleet in a high degree of readiness for use.
For as little as 100.00 dollars U$ a year, a StuG can be preserved even left in open atmosphere. For about 500.00 for a 5 year period the StuG seen being removed from the mud can be preserved, complete internally (with exception the internals of the engine and transmission, radiators and those sealed areas where oils are used, read on for more info) and externally with a one time proccess of shrink wrapping. See image of the helicopter in shrink wrap preservation. The 100.00 U$ system is a spray of a liquid rust inhbiotr that sinks to the metal substrate that moves between the anode and cathode within the acitve corrosion cells and reduces the effet of corrosion rate up to 95%, so slight that the corrosion cannot be seen by the naked eye of years of use. These film products have been tested and shown to move through the paint coating, move through rust scale if present to the good metal, slowing the spread of coating undercutting or the bubbling of the coating due to the corrosion process.
If the StuG has the engine, transmisson complete, additives can be inducted into the system that will protect the internal workings where the oils contact the metal, in the case of an engine and transmisson that can be turned over either manually or running, the complete assembly will be preserved until fundign ius made available, otherwise the procedure would be required to be performed over at each 5 year interval. Electronic systems can be surface treated and as well, if the space is either vented or enclosed a system is available that will protect the metals in it's current state by a vapor that consumes oxygen and releases the inhbitor that then is attracted to the metal by an electro-chemical process.
These procedures were tested, accepted and used by NATO militaries including US military.
We've performed the simpler procedure for museums and active fleet here in Hawaii and have proven that the equipment can be preserved either until funds are avialble, or small amounts of funding over time to slowly work complete preservation.
Hawaii is a unique place for corrosion, we are sorrounded by the Pacific and have an active volcano that spews tons of sulfuric dioxide daily. When the supfuric dixoide is combined with water, such as rain, high humidity and the heat cool cycle whcich causes metals to condensate an electrolyte or solution that is highly toxic to metals is created.
We have a Corrosion Engineer at the University of Hawaii who had taken samples of dew from plastic trash bags at his home when we have had vog occur (vog is volcanic fallout, that stuff you folks are now experiencing in Europe due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption)that was tested for pH. The dew was 3.5 pH which is regarded sulfuric acid. Couple this with chlorides from the Pacific due to high wave activity which hawaii is noted for, high Ultra Violet an dheat and there is one heck of a harsh corrosion condition occuring.
So much so that Americas DoD has regarded Hawaii as being a zone 4 corrosion zone. These zones are rated as 1, for least cororsion attack to 4 being the worst.
For those who have smaller artifacts, such as medals, bullion insignia, small arms to aircraft a system is available to you that is economical, environmentally clean and has proven to work by people who have bought these systems from us over the last decade. And yes, this will stop the destruction of zinc insignia with what some here call the zinc pest, oxidation on bullion insignia as seen in the small zip bag on top of the larger bag for pistols, baynoets, ammo or what ever will fit into the bag.
As an example, a rifle can be preserved for 2 years for as little as $8.00 US.
There interestign aspect of this is, you can fire your weapon, insert it into the preservation system without cleaning the weapon, remove the weapon 18 months later and it is in the same condition as when it was inserted into the system. Obviously, we do not recommend anyone to do this, this example only states how well the system can work.
We've sold a number of these bags to hunters as well as the preservation system to humters & fisherman for use in the field, when they go for weeks at a time without cleaning their weapons without the ill effect of rust & corrosion.
If anyone is interested please contact me by PM for more information.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=429827
I have been involved with active/inactive US military tactical equipment preservation for years, preserving the fleet and keeping the fleet in a high degree of readiness for use.
For as little as 100.00 dollars U$ a year, a StuG can be preserved even left in open atmosphere. For about 500.00 for a 5 year period the StuG seen being removed from the mud can be preserved, complete internally (with exception the internals of the engine and transmission, radiators and those sealed areas where oils are used, read on for more info) and externally with a one time proccess of shrink wrapping. See image of the helicopter in shrink wrap preservation. The 100.00 U$ system is a spray of a liquid rust inhbiotr that sinks to the metal substrate that moves between the anode and cathode within the acitve corrosion cells and reduces the effet of corrosion rate up to 95%, so slight that the corrosion cannot be seen by the naked eye of years of use. These film products have been tested and shown to move through the paint coating, move through rust scale if present to the good metal, slowing the spread of coating undercutting or the bubbling of the coating due to the corrosion process.
If the StuG has the engine, transmisson complete, additives can be inducted into the system that will protect the internal workings where the oils contact the metal, in the case of an engine and transmisson that can be turned over either manually or running, the complete assembly will be preserved until fundign ius made available, otherwise the procedure would be required to be performed over at each 5 year interval. Electronic systems can be surface treated and as well, if the space is either vented or enclosed a system is available that will protect the metals in it's current state by a vapor that consumes oxygen and releases the inhbitor that then is attracted to the metal by an electro-chemical process.
These procedures were tested, accepted and used by NATO militaries including US military.
We've performed the simpler procedure for museums and active fleet here in Hawaii and have proven that the equipment can be preserved either until funds are avialble, or small amounts of funding over time to slowly work complete preservation.
Hawaii is a unique place for corrosion, we are sorrounded by the Pacific and have an active volcano that spews tons of sulfuric dioxide daily. When the supfuric dixoide is combined with water, such as rain, high humidity and the heat cool cycle whcich causes metals to condensate an electrolyte or solution that is highly toxic to metals is created.
We have a Corrosion Engineer at the University of Hawaii who had taken samples of dew from plastic trash bags at his home when we have had vog occur (vog is volcanic fallout, that stuff you folks are now experiencing in Europe due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption)that was tested for pH. The dew was 3.5 pH which is regarded sulfuric acid. Couple this with chlorides from the Pacific due to high wave activity which hawaii is noted for, high Ultra Violet an dheat and there is one heck of a harsh corrosion condition occuring.
So much so that Americas DoD has regarded Hawaii as being a zone 4 corrosion zone. These zones are rated as 1, for least cororsion attack to 4 being the worst.
For those who have smaller artifacts, such as medals, bullion insignia, small arms to aircraft a system is available to you that is economical, environmentally clean and has proven to work by people who have bought these systems from us over the last decade. And yes, this will stop the destruction of zinc insignia with what some here call the zinc pest, oxidation on bullion insignia as seen in the small zip bag on top of the larger bag for pistols, baynoets, ammo or what ever will fit into the bag.
As an example, a rifle can be preserved for 2 years for as little as $8.00 US.
There interestign aspect of this is, you can fire your weapon, insert it into the preservation system without cleaning the weapon, remove the weapon 18 months later and it is in the same condition as when it was inserted into the system. Obviously, we do not recommend anyone to do this, this example only states how well the system can work.
We've sold a number of these bags to hunters as well as the preservation system to humters & fisherman for use in the field, when they go for weeks at a time without cleaning their weapons without the ill effect of rust & corrosion.
If anyone is interested please contact me by PM for more information.