I would put the pump before the heat exchanger. Can you just rotate the
exchanger so the zinc port is on the top? The water inlet/outlet should face
up anyway, so that the cooling water keeps the exchanger full.

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Keith
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but if you tell them that your teak has wet varnish they have to touch it?
"engsol" wrote in message
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While sitting on my (new to me) boat yesterday, trying to figure out how
and where to mount a sea water strainer, it occured to me that the hose
routing would be a lot cleaner if I connected stuff like this:

Intake-strainer-exchanger-pump-exhaust

Any problems I'm overlooking with this arrangement?

Also, I noticed the heat exchanger zinc (pencil) is mounted on the
bottom. This means that whenever I check the zinc, I'm going to
have water in the bilge. Any reason I can't have a new zinc nut
welded to the top? Oh, it's a horizontal heat exchanger.

Thanks,
NormB