Lyme is only "curable" if caught and treated immediately.
However, chronic Lyme happens if a tick bite isn't found and treated, is only treated for symptoms by big pharma and the medical community as they do not try to cure it...$1.3 Billion with a B per year.
BUT, chronic Lyme has now frequently been cured by chlorine dioxide per the books and documentation online.
I don't know for sure about cleaning metal surfaces with chlorine dioxide, but I know it should not be stored in plastic or metal containers after it's mixed and should not be provided with water in a metal watering container (dog bowl, chicken water, etc). The preferred water delivery is in glass. The chlorine dioxide used to clean hospital surgery suites is an air borne version which does safely clean stainless steal, etc. You can even seal off a small area or container and release the gas just in that area for disinfecting something specific.
While I've mentioned before that Lyme and cwd are not necessarily similar, we do know that poisons in the body are attracted to and attach to chlorine dioxide and urinated out of the body. So, why not try this in a testing environment with cwd deer that are going to die anyway...there's not much to lose and everything to gain.