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Rust, crud and corruption
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So hey, after some further investigation and a visit by a friend with some metal working experience... turns out it's a paint problem!
The untreated sheet metal was spray-painted on the interior of the storage compartments. (if it's galvanized at all, it was a minimal treatment, at best.)
The exterior of the bins are brown with rust, but intact... think like a rusty brown railway bridge. The coat of rust protects the steel. With the storage compartments, the problem starts with retained moisture under the interior paint skin.
The bins are rotting from the INSIDE out! It has little or nothing to do with the weather or road conditions.
There seems to be no immediately available or cost-effective means to restore or replace the rotting storage compartments, so I have resorted to patching with sheet metal, gobs of construction adhesive, 1/2" plywood and slotted angles... and a bucket of bolts and tapping screws.
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