On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:07 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:53 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

Got me, but that International L-110 I restored master cylinder was
clean (cast iron), but all the lines from it were toast.

Maybe it's the lines and not the cyliinder.

Steel is highly susceptable to rust, while cast iron is very corrosion
resistant.

Casady

I have always had to make sure my cast iron skillets were well seasoned
or they would rust.

And your skillets developed how many holes? There are cast iron water
pipes that have been in use for hundreds of years. I have owned steel
knives that could corrode visibly in fifteen minutes, just cut an
apple and watch white steel blacken. I have never heard of a cast iron
car part failing from corrosion. Steel bodies, and when they had them,
frames, can rust to the point of uselessness. Frame rusted out on my
fathers 67 Ford wagon, and he had to scrap it, even though the body
and interior were still good.