Yes monel makes sense its high nickel content would help prevent corrosion from the marine environment, we had a few tones of this steel piping that was thickly coated with a monel type alloy and it was from a type of chemical treatment plant it was worth thousands just because of the nickel...
Thats really cool that you worked there mate and yes the dangers are real and not many people would know of the dangers so its always good to warn others when you can, I have collected loads of telcon tools, it started with finding a hammer head that had Telcon 321 on it, and after looking into...