<VV> RE: Keeping Rust Free Cars that way

[Dave Keillor]

As you point out, it's the humidity -- especially cold floor and a warm
spring day.  That's why the horse arena was so great -- dry, powdery
dirt reaches ambient fast.  I have a vapor barrier under the concrete, a
wooden building with roof vents, and I blow a fan across the floor to
keep the moisture from building up at floor level.  So far, so good.  We
just bought back our 1965 Corvair that had been stored in a pole barn
with a concrete floor for about 35 years.  Except for surface rust on
the underside, the car is very solid.  (This is my rotisserie project.)

Dave Keillor

-----Original Message-----
From: J R Read_HML [mailto:hmlinc at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:18 PM
To: Dave Keillor; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Keeping Rust Free Cars that way

I have a brick garage with concrete floor (cracks in it) - build in the
mid 
1920s in IL.  My issue is always in the spring - sometimes other times
of 
the year - when the floor is cold and the humidity is high.  The floor 
condenses the moisture out of the air.  Putting down a layer of plastic
does 
not help either.  The moisture just condenses on the plastic.  I suppose

heat would help, but that is another issue.  I'm running a 250w halogen
bulb 
24/7 just to (hopefully) help dry the air.  I think I'm kidding myself
on 
that one.  BUT, I'm certainly willing to listen to suggestions.  Of
course 
it does not help that my wife's driver gets parked in the other stall
and 
brings in moisture as well.

I've got a CA car parked out there - spent all but 2 yrs of life in 
Sacramento and the last 2 near LA (black plate car).  It IS rust free
and I 
want to keep it that way.  Brought it home (IL) in April - May of 05.

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Later, JR