# Magnesium Pewter Finish near ocean?

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**Created:** [March 2, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984 "2015-03-02T04:30:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984/1 "2015-03-02T04:30:17Z")

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The wife and I are looking for beds for our home. We are less than a mile from the ocean in warm humid Hawaii.

How would a metal bed with a Magnesium Pewter Finish stand up in this environment?

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984/2 "2015-03-02T14:06:59Z")

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Sounds like a color name (and a wretchedly overwrought one at that) rather than any technique or process or material. Hard to say what it’s durability might be. A good, non-ferrous outer layer might endure even in salty humidity. A plasticized sealer might be okay, or even better if never scratched.

But it’s the actual material, not a brand or color name, that will tell.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984/3 "2015-03-02T15:10:41Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> Sounds like a color name (and a wretchedly overwrought one at that) rather than any technique or process or material.

This. I Googled “magnesium pewter bed frame” and got a lot of hits; [This Amazon entry](http://www.amazon.com/Hillsdale-Furniture-1333BK-Edgewood-Magnesium/dp/B00278DCBC) even refers to it as “magnesium pewter color.” [Pewter, the metal,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter) is an alloy of specific composition that does not include magnesium.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984/4 "2015-03-02T15:21:00Z")

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> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> This. I Googled “magnesium pewter bed frame” and got a lot of hits; [This Amazon entry](http://www.amazon.com/Hillsdale-Furniture-1333BK-Edgewood-Magnesium/dp/B00278DCBC) even refers to it as “magnesium pewter color.”

Yeah. One of my cars is (technically) “Lamborghini _Titanio_” - Titanium - but I just say “It’s the silver one over there.”

OTOH, I do tell people the Mustang is Gulfstream Aqua because that’s a specific and well known color in the community. Actually, it’s two colors, but I won’t tell that horror story.

If the OP can provide a link to the bed frame, the materials info is probably there. If the coating is well -done, I can’t see why the metal and finish would have any shorter lifespan near the Hawaiian coast than anywhere else.

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnesium-pewter-finish-near-ocean/713984/5 "2015-03-02T15:31:20Z")

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Can’t go wrong with wood:)