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12th Jan 2015, 11:22

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Originally Posted by bud leon

It's to minimise exposure to oxygen, which is the chemical agent of corrosion.

Although they should have moved it from the salt water it was inevitably found in, to fresh water - the salt doesn't help corrosion either.

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