T&T: Anchor chain painting

[Faure, Marin]

>rust destroys...it doesn't protect.

I believe there is at least one exception to this and that is Core Ten
steel (I think that's what it's called).  It's formulated to form a
surface oxide ("rust") and then it stops.  No painting ever needed-- the
"rust" protects the metal itself.  Back in the 1970s the new stadium in
Honolulu was made of this stuff, and I assume it's still holding up.
Only problem is you have to like the color "dark reddish brown" because
I believe that's the only the color anything made of this stuff will be
unless you paint it which sort of defeats the purpose of using Core Ten
in the first place.  But so far as I know they don't make chain out of
it.

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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington