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Effect of stainless steel fasteners on aluminum

I live within two miles of salt water and have aluminum glass sliding doors to install. I would like to know if stainless fasteners would best be used to avoid electrolysis and corrosion or would galvanized be a better option.

Dan Pulone
home owner - Englewood, Florida, USA
2006

Best would be aluminum fasteners -- then there would be no galvanic corrosion. But neither galvanized nor stainless should be a real problem in a non-critical application; anodized aluminum does not suffer from galvanic corrosion as much as many other materials do.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2006

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