wow.....opened a can of worms...( pun intended) i more often than not throw a hook in the box wet,
and being lazy, i get to them a couple of days later and they have already started rusting.
they dry slowly in moisture, not instantly.
an old bloke once told me (yeah right) that a wind & wave washed vessel on the rocks, will corrode
faster than one that is submerged due to the stuff that forms barnacles and algae.
my 17 year old studying son also tells me it is oxidization from the nitrogen in the air that does the
damage, not so much the oxygen, as his( left out in the fresh water rain pushbike, has shown)
but like rzep i am very intersested in your findings.....and will definatley stand corrected!
i now have a brain ache i will now and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
..cheers!..stevo!..