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Re: [VAL] Potable water tank is Galvanized?



    Warren,

    Use a small magnet on the tank.  If it sticks well, it's galvanized
sheet metal (steel).  Some stainless will tend to react to a magnet but not
the same as steel.  Aluminum won't at all.

    Glyn Judson
    1969 Caravel #508
    Santa Monica, CA


> Ok. I contacted Airstream them selves and asked if my pressurized potable
> water tank was Stainless, Aluminum or what. They replied that no one
> remembered using either Stainless or Aluminum tanks (I presume that doesn't
> mean they didn't use Aluminum) but they did remember using Galvanized tanks
> back then.
> How do you tell if it is galvanized and would the galvanized last longer
> than the Aluminum everyone has mentioned?
> 
> Thanks.