How do you guys prevent winter salt damage?

[luvrbus]

Most states in the west use Magnesium Chloride they gotten away from salt over 10 years ago, concrete and salt don't mix it will cause concrete to flake 

good luck

[robertglines1]

To add to Clifford's and rebar to rot out of concrete(rust)

[artvonne]

  When you see steel over 1/4 inch thick rust through in under 10 years, you know its bad stuff. 35W bridge comes to mind

[gus]

Brian,

If the latches are steel it is either rust or the corrosion mix from Al and steel together which sometimes is even green.

Sometimes rust will migrate to Al and make it appear the Al is rusting (It isn't).

However, corrosion is corrosion and CX will stop either one. However, it will not last more than a year even when not exposed to the weather so it needs to be watched. So far I've found nothing to be better. Haven't tried Boshield but have heard it is about the same stuff.

[babell2]

WD-40 is pretty much worthless in this case. The best thing is Corrosion-X or Boeshield which are made for aircraft use.

They are made to spray inside Al aircraft structures and work great. C-X will also stop battery corrosion cold. I use this stuff all the time on my buses. I just yesterday cleaned up the pos battery terminal on my granddaughters auto with C-X. It was nothing but one big fluffy ball of corrosion underneath one of those really dumb plastic terminal covers.

To protect and lubricate I also use LPS products LPS-1 for penetration LPS-2 and -3 for years of corrosion protection. I used to work at an Aircraft FBO that used WD-40 to lube and we found every thing was coming back in stiff or starting to freeze up.  The WD-40 practice dyed FAST after that.

[gus]

LPS-3 is about the same as CX or Boshield but my experience with CX has been better than with LPS. LPS-2 is perfect for aircraft control hinges and such but I find that -3 is too sticky plus CX does a great job lubricating.

It is perfect on battery terminal corrosion, stops it cold.