Capt. JG wrote:

"Ronald Raygun" wrote in message
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Wayne.B wrote:

Probably because their strainer has a plastic top (polycarbonate)
which I regard as unseaworthy.

Proper marine strainers look like this:

http://marineengineparts.com/shopsit...l/page515.html

The removable glass cyclinders don't look much less [un]seaworthy.
If you want a really proper one, get one which is all bronze, like this:


http://www.gaelforcemarine.co.uk/Pum...isherman-Model


Maybe, but then you can't see what's going on without opening it up. With
the clear one, you can see if there's debris with the engine running.

True.

Can't imagine what would break the glass in anything other than
extraordinary circumstances. Then, you probably have bigger problems
anyway.

Well, I would imagine that anything which would break the polycarbonate
would also break the glass.