What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon

Gordon wrote:
What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.

Yeah! Them dad-gum strainers are nuttin' but trouble, I tell you! Always
picking up bits of plastic or strands of seaweed and plugging up. Man I
wish there was some way to get RID of the strainers and just let all
that crap go right through the raw water pump & heat exchangers!

That would be SO much easier!!

DSK

Gordon wrote:
What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon

Here's what can get clogged in a heat exchanger if you don't have a
strainer. The gasket covers one end of a set of tubes - the salt water
travels the length 3 times in a dozen small pipes. The clump shown
covered about half the tubes, and the temp went from a normal 165 to 185
degrees. If the alternator had a heavy load we couldn't run full
throttle without overheating. Most of the "experts" claimed it was a
foul bottom, or mis-sized props, but my old cruising buddy insisted the
cooling system was overkill, so something had to be wrong in it.

http://www.sv-loki.com/eelgrass.jpg

I once resued a boat with a fish stuck in the inlet pipe (no strainer).

Cheers

Jeff Morris wrote:

Gordon wrote:

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon


Here's what can get clogged in a heat exchanger if you don't have a
strainer. The gasket covers one end of a set of tubes - the salt water
travels the length 3 times in a dozen small pipes. The clump shown
covered about half the tubes, and the temp went from a normal 165 to 185
degrees. If the alternator had a heavy load we couldn't run full
throttle without overheating. Most of the "experts" claimed it was a
foul bottom, or mis-sized props, but my old cruising buddy insisted the
cooling system was overkill, so something had to be wrong in it.

http://www.sv-loki.com/eelgrass.jpg

I've seen seeds stuck tight in an impellor.
Scout

"Nav" wrote in message
...
I once resued a boat with a fish stuck in the inlet pipe (no strainer).

Cheers

Jeff Morris wrote:

Gordon wrote:

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon


Here's what can get clogged in a heat exchanger if you don't have a
strainer. The gasket covers one end of a set of tubes - the salt water
travels the length 3 times in a dozen small pipes. The clump shown
covered about half the tubes, and the temp went from a normal 165 to 185
degrees. If the alternator had a heavy load we couldn't run full
throttle without overheating. Most of the "experts" claimed it was a
foul bottom, or mis-sized props, but my old cruising buddy insisted the
cooling system was overkill, so something had to be wrong in it.

http://www.sv-loki.com/eelgrass.jpg

Nav wrote in message ...
I once resued a boat with a fish stuck in the inlet pipe (no strainer).

Cheers

I always getting fish stuck in the intakes/ thruhulls for the head
and AC's.
You either have to remove the plumbing and poke them out with a stick,
or let the crabs eat em, that usually takes no longer than 2 days.

Joe





Jeff Morris wrote:

Gordon wrote:

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon


Here's what can get clogged in a heat exchanger if you don't have a
strainer. The gasket covers one end of a set of tubes - the salt water
travels the length 3 times in a dozen small pipes. The clump shown
covered about half the tubes, and the temp went from a normal 165 to 185
degrees. If the alternator had a heavy load we couldn't run full
throttle without overheating. Most of the "experts" claimed it was a
foul bottom, or mis-sized props, but my old cruising buddy insisted the
cooling system was overkill, so something had to be wrong in it.

http://www.sv-loki.com/eelgrass.jpg

Gordy,

The work involved in cleaning a strainer is much less than the whole
system. Just make sure the strainer is installed with maintenance in
mind

Ole Thom

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:55:38 GMT, "Gordon" wrote
this crap:

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon


You use a tea strainer to separate the tea leaves from the water after
boiling them.






Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Look at it this way, real men like their coffee black with the grounds.
Strainers are for fem-boys. Moroon strains his applesauce, he is a fem-boy.

Gilligan

"Gordon" wrote in message
...
What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon

I hate applesauce and have a macerator on every intake line just in
case..... :-)

If I run into a school of tinker mackerel.... all that remains is a mackerel
soup chum trail....

CM

"Gilligan" wrote in message
ink.net...
Look at it this way, real men like their coffee black with the grounds.
Strainers are for fem-boys. Moroon strains his applesauce, he is a
fem-boy.

Gilligan

"Gordon" wrote in message
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What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon