[Bell Historians] Saffron Walden.

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" 
<davidbryant at ...> wrote:
>
> >the 'modern' tubular steel
> >stock which rust from the inside where the rust cannot
> >cannot be seen.  Has there been any incidence of these
> >tubular steel stocks collapsing due to internal rusting?
> 
> I'm not aware of any - but they haven't been in use for that long. 
Like you, 
> I suspect that stocks collapsing due to internal rusting will be a 
problem 
> in future.
> 
> David
>

Every example I have seen has been galvanized inside and out, so 
they'll probably last as long as most cast-iron stocks ...but as 
we've already been this way before, let's find something else to 
pontificate about!

Richard