The issue is you need to recoat sealants every 10-15 years, you only need to chat oxide every 50 to 100 to access damage and most of the damage is on the internal iron structure that the dielectric force is slowly eating at a faster rate then the copper skin.
There was a bunch of news about it around iirc 1980 when they cleaned sections to rebuild the inner scaffold in some areas.
I mean, isn’t that kind of symbolic though? France does regular maintenance on their democracy, we wait until it’s on the verge of irreparable corruption before we (hopefully) go in and fix it before it collapses
I would certainly hope some kind of sealant would be used. It would be astounding to see it fully polished and shining in full sunlight.
Probably wont happen in my lifetime though, or likely ever.
The issue is you need to recoat sealants every 10-15 years, you only need to chat oxide every 50 to 100 to access damage and most of the damage is on the internal iron structure that the dielectric force is slowly eating at a faster rate then the copper skin.
There was a bunch of news about it around iirc 1980 when they cleaned sections to rebuild the inner scaffold in some areas.
I mean, isn’t that kind of symbolic though? France does regular maintenance on their democracy, we wait until it’s on the verge of irreparable corruption before we (hopefully) go in and fix it before it collapses
I mean maybe but we did that already out was the 1980s and they had to shut down and iirc permanently close the torch lookout.
Oof, yeah that is problematic