okfoz
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Now that Spring is here, I have to start thinking about next year. Since I do not drive my summer cars in the Winter, living in Michigan where we have gotten snow measured in Feet, my cars usually live in a cacoon from November to April.
One of the things that I have done for winter storage is to strategically place shop fans, usually 2 or 3 around my 2400 sq foot barn to blow air under my stored cars. This works great for keeping the moisture from collecting on the steel parts. The years that I did not use any fan, I always had some surface rust on my brake rotors, when I use fans there is no rust on the rotors, so I know it works.
Fans are great for saving the metal parts, but electric motors give off ozone, which is not good for rubber parts. What Ozone does is it attacks rubber and plastics. Ever had the black rubber just come off your tires in the spring, they have to be cleaned because the surface is White or Brown? That is caused in part by Ozone. This actually will ruin your expensive racing tires too...
Does anyone know of any electric shop fans that do not emit ozone? In theory brush-less motors should not give off any ozone, I need to look into that a little more, but this spring when I got my mustang out for the first time I noticed that the side the fan was closer to the tires were ozone damaged.
I do not know what to google or search for as every time I search it comes up with ozone machines, which is not what I am looking for.
Thanks
John
One of the things that I have done for winter storage is to strategically place shop fans, usually 2 or 3 around my 2400 sq foot barn to blow air under my stored cars. This works great for keeping the moisture from collecting on the steel parts. The years that I did not use any fan, I always had some surface rust on my brake rotors, when I use fans there is no rust on the rotors, so I know it works.
Fans are great for saving the metal parts, but electric motors give off ozone, which is not good for rubber parts. What Ozone does is it attacks rubber and plastics. Ever had the black rubber just come off your tires in the spring, they have to be cleaned because the surface is White or Brown? That is caused in part by Ozone. This actually will ruin your expensive racing tires too...
Does anyone know of any electric shop fans that do not emit ozone? In theory brush-less motors should not give off any ozone, I need to look into that a little more, but this spring when I got my mustang out for the first time I noticed that the side the fan was closer to the tires were ozone damaged.
I do not know what to google or search for as every time I search it comes up with ozone machines, which is not what I am looking for.
Thanks
John
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