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02-26-2008, 07:57 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

Even in sealed containers pool chemicals will eat your bike. It will be an expensive thing to fix. Don't ask me how I know..

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02-26-2008, 08:27 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

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My Night Train will be stored inmy wood shed. We also have a pool, & the chemicals are stored in there as well. Sometimesduring hot weather when you walk into the shed you can smell the chemicals. Will the cholorine etc. effect the finish & metals on my bike?Should I findanother spot for my chemicals? - Thanks, you guys have been alot of help to my questions

A friend of the family keeps her bike in the garage with pool chemical. (Her husband is a pool man) She told us her bike was full of rust... This bike is an 07 has only 1000 miles on it...I told her to bring it by we would clean it up. Never seen anything like it....full of rust was an understatement!!! looked ten years old and left out side for a few seasons.. Did get about 90% of it cleaned up with alot of work and polish. what wasn't rusted was oxicided.. spell check? this was garage kept only reason I could come up with was the pool chemicals

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02-26-2008, 08:32 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

Pool chemicals, fertilizer, road salt all very corrosive.....put them elsewhere.

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02-26-2008, 08:58 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

I wouldn't store a bike in a shed that used to store pool chemicals, let alone one that still does.

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02-26-2008, 11:05 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

I used to do work at a water treatment facility years ago. The chlorine (same as for a pool) was stored in a room in that building and all of the conduit, switch plates, door hinges, etc., were nothing but solid rust. DO NOT STORE YOUR BIKE WITH THESE CHEMICALS!

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02-26-2008, 11:11 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggmMu5nyO5g

answers your questions

just imagine if a seal dried up, leaked fluid, and they contacted in that shed? bye-bye bike, thats what! anything that CAN go wrong WILL, always remember that

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02-26-2008, 11:14 PM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

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ORIGINAL: TJB50

Don't do it! I took a HazCom seminar and the instructor mixed chlorine and brake fluid togther in a small can outside and it was one-h*ll of an explosion.

+1 Exactly
Just ask Tim McVeigh

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02-27-2008, 12:46 AM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

Move the bike now. Wash the bike good. Wax. Pool chemicals can't be good for any metal.

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02-27-2008, 03:02 AM

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RE: bike storage/pool chemicals

Remove the chemicals, I restore old cars and started seeing an incidentdevelopmeting. My friend that works at the pool company said it will hurt the medal. I asked him how he knew that? He took me to the shop and showed me his bosses bike that was still in the storage with the chemicals.It had pits in the chrome and rims from the chemicals that were stored in there with the bike. Keep in mind he never rides/cleans the bike and hasbeen in there for years.

I now store my chemicals outside.