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Not meaning to sound harsh but if the trailer is cared for, stored & maintained reasonably... Its indifferent owners/users that kill trailers. Galvanized steel spars, frame and outriggers will not stop seams and gaskets from leaking or caulked joint from failing. Wet rotting floors and corroded aluminum would still happen, and zinc reacts with aluminum just as bad or worse than iron since it is more easily leached and moved by acid rain's weak electrolyte action.
Indifferent owner example: it's great to have a salt-water view for a winter season, who cares the sea-spray is eating the trailer. Or more common but as bad or worse, the long term toity leak with uric acid and salts wicking through insulation everywhere in the aft section - soon the animal smell makes the trailer get used less, just parked out back for years and a frame restoration sequence is irretrievably initiated.
One thing to look at is Aluminum was once an expensive rarity and iron was dirt cheap, as was labor. The modern threshold of pain in our 'consumer side' discard society was unheard of. I'm proud to restore my 27' yet get nauseus thinking of it being sold and resold until its back in the hands of apes like those that allowed it to get so bad..
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