For the past few years, I almost only flew Dan leigh Kites or Kap Foils and neglected my flow forms 16, 16 becotized, FF 30 and FF 8 which all flew from 2005 to 2010 in some severe marine environment and were stored after a complete fresh water cleaning and sun dry.
Almost 7 years later on a sunday morning I decided to do a check and opened them under the tahitian sun; much to my surprise I found out that all metallic parts were corroded to a point that they all broke loose and needed to be removed to stop the corrosion process.
The Flow Forms are now back in their bags for an other few months or years and I have changed all metal parts by dyneema lines.
If you fly your kites by the ocean or if you live by the ocean, like we do, make sure you replace all metal parts by a line.
The two large blue Peter Lynn Lifters did not have any metallic part and were absolutely fine.
Tags: pierre lesage kapstock KAP AutoKAP kite aerial photography flow forms FF8 FF16 FF16becotized FF30 salt Corrosion
For the past few years, I almost only flew Dan leigh Kites or Kap Foils and neglected my flow forms 16, 16 becotized, FF 30 and FF 8 which all flew from 2005 to 2010 in some severe marine environment and were stored after a complete fresh water cleaning and sun dry.
Almost 7 years later on a sunday morning I decided to do a check and opened them under the tahitian sun; much to my surprise I found out that all metallic parts were corroded to a point that they all broke loose and needed to be removed to stop the corrosion process.
The Flow Forms are now back in their bags for an other few months or years and I have changed all metal parts by dyneema lines.
If you fly your kites by the ocean or if you live by the ocean, like we do, make sure you replace all metal parts by a line.
The two large blue Peter Lynn Lifters did not have any metallic part and were absolutely fine.
Tags: pierre lesage kapstock KAP AutoKAP kite aerial photography flow forms FF8 FF16 FF16becotized FF30 salt Corrosion
For the past few years, I almost only flew Dan leigh Kites or Kap Foils and neglected my flow forms 16, 16 becotized, FF 30 and FF 8 which all flew from 2005 to 2010 in some severe marine environment and were stored after a complete fresh water cleaning and sun dry.
Almost 7 years later on a sunday morning I decided to do a check and opened them under the tahitian sun; much to my surprise I found out that all metallic parts were corroded to a point that they all broke loose and needed to be removed to stop the corrosion process.
The Flow Forms are now back in their bags for an other few months or years and I have changed all metal parts by dyneema lines.
If you fly your kites by the ocean or if you live by the ocean, like we do, make sure you replace all metal parts by a line.
The two large blue Peter Lynn Lifters did not have any metallic part and were absolutely fine.
Tags: pierre lesage kapstock KAP AutoKAP kite aerial photography flow forms FF8 FF16 FF16becotized FF30 salt Corrosion
For the past few years, I almost only flew Dan leigh Kites or Kap Foils and neglected my flow forms 16, 16 becotized, FF 30 and FF 8 which all flew from 2005 to 2010 in some severe marine environment and were stored after a complete fresh water cleaning and sun dry.
Almost 7 years later on a sunday morning I decided to do a check and opened them under the tahitian sun; much to my surprise I found out that all metallic parts were corroded to a point that they all broke loose and needed to be removed to stop the corrosion process.
The Flow Forms are now back in their bags for an other few months or years and I have changed all metal parts by dyneema lines.
If you fly your kites by the ocean or if you live by the ocean, like we do, make sure you replace all metal parts by a line.
The two large blue Peter Lynn Lifters did not have any metallic part and were absolutely fine.
Tags: pierre lesage kapstock KAP AutoKAP kite aerial photography flow forms FF8 FF16 FF16becotized FF30 salt Corrosion