YanchaOkami
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Cute smut.
True, depending on the insects or microorganisms there's a way quicker eroding to expect.
But in regards to water: it's all depending on the "aggressive" composition of this. As example: if you have a non-balanced pH value, it might corrode the wood -itself- by breaking it down. Fortunately most open waters are not that aggressive.
A lot of solution detergents as well would break down the wood even without any cellular activity being active in there (as the microorganisms wouldn't be able to survive in this as well).
Hmm, nowadays it's a problem in terms of price and form shaping.
Steel constructions are oxide dependent - even fire tinning them doesn't protect against scratches forever (it starts to corrode the tin going from the blank surface areas on moisture, as it protects them as an electrolytic less-worthy metal to the corrosion) and it's as well not massive, as such you can't just screw a hole in it and put screws through hollow constructions wholly, as this would deform them. You need spacers inside or use one-sided mounting options.
Aluminum constructions are quite well self-protective by self-oxidizing with the non-conducting aluminum oxide coat. But they actually give physical atoms to the environment by contact with as example acidic or base moist environments. This is something I don't want in overly big amounts.
Stainless steel is expensive..
If you want a rectangle tube with 3,5-5 mm wall thickness and around 100-120 mm height, 60-80 mm broadness, which for sure is ways more robust than one massive wooden bar - but on the other hand the outer shapes are similar, means: you could use it without structural changes of the construction layers - then you would pay about 800 € or more for five meters of this.
A wooden bar from douglas fir as example would cost ~12 to 20 € per meter I assume. And can get screwed on without preparations.
Even fire-tinned steel tubes would cost multiple hundred euros for 4-5 meters of length. As such wood is really versatile - even in terms of prices. And sure: a stainless steel construction would.. stay forever, if the atmospheric balance doesn't change much in the next 500 years. It wouldn't break down. But the costs would be immense.
The weight of such a tube which withstands side and top loads of half a ton without collapsing is as well around 8 to 15 times that of a wooden bar.
Cute smut.
True, depending on the insects or microorganisms there's a way quicker eroding to expect.
But in regards to water: it's all depending on the "aggressive" composition of this. As example: if you have a non-balanced pH value, it might corrode the wood -itself- by breaking it down. Fortunately most open waters are not that aggressive.
A lot of solution detergents as well would break down the wood even without any cellular activity being active in there (as the microorganisms wouldn't be able to survive in this as well).
Hmm, nowadays it's a problem in terms of price and form shaping.
Steel constructions are oxide dependent - even fire tinning them doesn't protect against scratches forever (it starts to corrode the tin going from the blank surface areas on moisture, as it protects them as an electrolytic less-worthy metal to the corrosion) and it's as well not massive, as such you can't just screw a hole in it and put screws through hollow constructions wholly, as this would deform them. You need spacers inside or use one-sided mounting options.
Aluminum constructions are quite well self-protective by self-oxidizing with the non-conducting aluminum oxide coat. But they actually give physical atoms to the environment by contact with as example acidic or base moist environments. This is something I don't want in overly big amounts.
Stainless steel is expensive..
If you want a rectangle tube with 3,5-5 mm wall thickness and around 100-120 mm height, 60-80 mm broadness, which for sure is ways more robust than one massive wooden bar - but on the other hand the outer shapes are similar, means: you could use it without structural changes of the construction layers - then you would pay about 800 € or more for five meters of this.
A wooden bar from douglas fir as example would cost ~12 to 20 € per meter I assume. And can get screwed on without preparations.
Even fire-tinned steel tubes would cost multiple hundred euros for 4-5 meters of length. As such wood is really versatile - even in terms of prices. And sure: a stainless steel construction would.. stay forever, if the atmospheric balance doesn't change much in the next 500 years. It wouldn't break down. But the costs would be immense.
The weight of such a tube which withstands side and top loads of half a ton without collapsing is as well around 8 to 15 times that of a wooden bar.
