05-05-2010, 04:45 AM
Salt water rusts steel rather quickly and can pit aluminum.
Chromated steel will have mild resistance to rusting in salt water.
Some stainless steels will not rust in salt water.
Hard anodized aluminum will rather good resistance to corrosion. Soft anodized aluminum will have some resistance to corrosion.
When it says that the reel has light salt fishing condition I would interpert that to say that the materials have mild resistance to the corrosion but you darn well had better rinse it and dry it throughly each day as already suggested. Critical parts would be the disk brake and the shaft for the spool and inside the spool bearing surface.
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Chromated steel will have mild resistance to rusting in salt water.
Some stainless steels will not rust in salt water.
Hard anodized aluminum will rather good resistance to corrosion. Soft anodized aluminum will have some resistance to corrosion.
When it says that the reel has light salt fishing condition I would interpert that to say that the materials have mild resistance to the corrosion but you darn well had better rinse it and dry it throughly each day as already suggested. Critical parts would be the disk brake and the shaft for the spool and inside the spool bearing surface.
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