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ozarkhippie · 11-13-2002, 06:19 AM

It looks like electrolysis. This is common in ships. and engines. I had overhaul the engine in my front end loader awhile back because of this. I was getting water in the oil. When I tore the engine down there was a hole eaten in the sleeve that started from the water jacket and exited in the lower part of the cyl. bore. Here is the deffinition of electrolysis.

electrolysis
The process of decomposing an electrically conducting compound by the passage of an electric current. For the passage of an electric current two conductors called electrodes are dipped into a solution or melt of the compound. At the negative electrode (the cathode), metal ions and hydrogen gas collect, while at the positive electrode (the anode) negative ions collect. At the cathode metal ions gain electrons to become metal atoms and are deposited on the cathode; this reduction process has important industrial applications in electroplating and for reducing the ore of an impure metal to the metal itself.

11-13-2002, 06:19 AM	#27
ozarkhippie Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Eureka Springs AR Posts: 494	It looks like electrolysis. This is common in ships. and engines. I had overhaul the engine in my front end loader awhile back because of this. I was getting water in the oil. When I tore the engine down there was a hole eaten in the sleeve that started from the water jacket and exited in the lower part of the cyl. bore. Here is the deffinition of electrolysis. electrolysis The process of decomposing an electrically conducting compound by the passage of an electric current. For the passage of an electric current two conductors called electrodes are dipped into a solution or melt of the compound. At the negative electrode (the cathode), metal ions and hydrogen gas collect, while at the positive electrode (the anode) negative ions collect. At the cathode metal ions gain electrons to become metal atoms and are deposited on the cathode; this reduction process has important industrial applications in electroplating and for reducing the ore of an impure metal to the metal itself. Last edited by ozarkhippie; 11-13-2002 at 06:31 AM.