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Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/8/2006 6:24:56 PM

Hallittlelolita

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Hi my Master gave me an eternity collar from the house of collars and my question is will the collar rust in saltwater as in the beach and chlorine water as in the pool i have wrote the company asking and i didnt get a clear answer. So if anyone knows please tell me. Because i like to swim during the summer in the ocean and the pool but i dont want to remove my collar.

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RE: Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/8/2006 8:31:15 PM

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If it's a stainless steel collar with a stainless set screw, you don't have anything to worry about.

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RE: Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/8/2006 8:32:50 PM

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depending on which alloy your collar is made if it's possible that the hinge could be damaged or the alloy could rust. I know that they state that some collars will get a natural patina after a while and will need polishing if you want them to remain shiney. To me doesn't seem worth the risk to something so valuble but I guess it really depends on how much time you spend in the water. Occasional swimming, probably not a great idea but wouldn't immediately think it would harm. Lifeguard in the pool & sun all summer to me would be a VERY different deal unless it was the gold one.
If you don't feel this topic is important enough to call and be bossy until you get a straight answer have your master give them a call. It's harder to avoid and side-step a question on the phone than in email.

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RE: Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/9/2006 6:29:32 PM

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I'm interested in hearing anything else you find out on the topic, my Better Half plans to collar me a bit down the road but has not yet decide on what type of jewery to use yet. Since I am an avid SCUBA diver and I am starting to get in to sky diving at her direction, I am most interested to hear about anything that can keep up with my life style so that she won't be disappointed by fadeing or corrosion on her choice of collar, and that what she chooses will not have to come off for some activitys.

*Edited for a spelling (though I'm sure I missed some more)*

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RE: Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/9/2006 7:25:57 PM

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Purely stainless steel. Even that needs the salt cleaned off of it. Phosphor bronze is not really strong and probably not suited to wearing on the skin, but to my knowledge it is the only thing that can handle sea water.

Screws would be better than a lock, and more discreet.

I have unrefined sea salt, it's all I use and lemme tellya, I don't think there is a substance completely impervious to it. The stainless bowl and blades of a spice grinder, a CERAMIC mortar and pistle, and anything else this stuff touches corrodes or erodes.

I don't think you'll have a big problem with the clorinated water, but if you go swimming in the ocean I would suggest you find a way to flush it out as completely as possible, no matter what it's made of.

This may be a slight exaggeratin but probably not much. My sea salt is a 50/50 mixture of salt harvested up north, and from the Dead Sea. It is not table salt, there is alot more corrosive stuff in it and it came from the sea. I would say rinse it off the collar really good at the very least, unles you actually do want it to corrode together :-).

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RE: Will collar rust in salt water/chlorine water? - 1/10/2006 7:57:24 AM

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well i have had mine on now for hummm.. almost 2 1/2 years ... and it still looks as good as the day it was WELDED on...

it is made of high food grade stainless steel .. and there is no problem with it ...

well except when i go thru a medal detector .. takes a few to explain the collar will not come off unless they have bolt cutters handy or cut off my head.. lol... the look i get..

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