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Cleaning Zinc Anodes
Just pulled my vessel out of the river, getting ready to take a trip
to one of the local lakes for a week-long vacation on-board. This vessel has only been in the water for ~5 months, but the zinc anodes look like they're working especially well. *THAT's* good news, but I wonder if I shouldn't take a steel brush to 'em while I have the thing out of the water. I'd much rather see the anodes rot than the outdrive. A bit of background, this is an 07 260DA and I keep it in the river full-time, and it's connected to shore power while in the slip. Thanks! ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= john burton Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone Kanawha Valley Community Band / Slide-by-Slide South Charleston, West Virginia |
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wrote in message ... Just pulled my vessel out of the river, getting ready to take a trip to one of the local lakes for a week-long vacation on-board. This vessel has only been in the water for ~5 months, but the zinc anodes look like they're working especially well. *THAT's* good news, but I wonder if I shouldn't take a steel brush to 'em while I have the thing out of the water. I'd much rather see the anodes rot than the outdrive. A bit of background, this is an 07 260DA and I keep it in the river full-time, and it's connected to shore power while in the slip. Thanks! I'd replace them. |
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the zinc anodes look like they're working especially well. In my experience, that's kind of unusual in the Kanawha. Could you have some sort of stray electrical current problem in your slip? |
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You probably should be using magnesium anodes in freshwater.
Magnesium is less reactive than zinc; you are interconnected to ALL OTHER BOATS in your marina since you (not such a good idea) keep the AC connection at all times when you're in your slip. The problem will be that if you are essentially bonded (via the AC ground) to another boat(s) that does have magnesium, YOUR zinc will be the one that is consumed since it is the least noble. Consider to install a 'galvanic isolator' so that your boat is 'isolated' from that common AC ground wire !!!!!!!!!! ...... then get a calibrated electrolysis cell (corrosion reference cell) and be sure that you have the exact AMOUNT of anode needed for ***your specific location*** for the best or most effective protection ........ http://www.boatzincs.com/corrosion-r...electrode.html. .... a lot of good info is found on the www.boatzinc.com website. |
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Rich,
Please quit giving advise about things you do not understand. I am being polite. You are misinformed. Please do your homework. There have many discussions about this in the recent past. Steve "RichH" wrote in message ... You probably should be using magnesium anodes in freshwater. Magnesium is less reactive than zinc; you are interconnected to ALL OTHER BOATS in your marina since you (not such a good idea) keep the AC connection at all times when you're in your slip. The problem will be that if you are essentially bonded (via the AC ground) to another boat(s) that does have magnesium, YOUR zinc will be the one that is consumed since it is the least noble. Consider to install a 'galvanic isolator' so that your boat is 'isolated' from that common AC ground wire !!!!!!!!!! ...... then get a calibrated electrolysis cell (corrosion reference cell) and be sure that you have the exact AMOUNT of anode needed for ***your specific location*** for the best or most effective protection ........ http://www.boatzincs.com/corrosion-r...electrode.html. .... a lot of good info is found on the www.boatzinc.com website. |
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"RichH" wrote
you are interconnected to ALL OTHER BOATS in your marina No, I'm not. I have a private dock on the same river as the OP. He's the one in a slip. And I believe you have your galvanic series backwards. Magnesium is more anodic (less noble) than zinc, which is why it's typically recommended for fresh water. The water being less conductive, a larger electrode potential is desirable if you want to achieve similar protection. When I had my powerboat in the Kanawha and was using zinc anodes, they'd develop an insulating layer on their surface after a couple of weeks, taking them out of circuit. Abrading them down to shiny metal would restore their effectiveness, but it was a PITA, so I switched to magnesium. This reduced the problem, but didn't totally eliminate it, and I still never saw significant loss of material from my anodes, which is why I suggested to the OP that he might have power issues. |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:21:42 -0700 (PDT), RichH
wrote: Magnesium is less reactive than zinc; They used magnesium in incendary bombs because it will burn easily. But it's less reactive? What zinc is, is cheaper. Aluminum is the standard fuel in firecrackers, and my boat is aluminum. Spirit Lake in Iowa has a number of aluminum boats originally bought by the no longer there boat rentals of fifty years ago. The businesses are long gone but the boats remain. None have ever seen a zinc or anything like it unless it was perhaps built into an outboard moter. None of these boats have shore power, most have no battery. No bronze thru hull fittings. No corrosion in any of these boats in fifty years. Active or not, bare aluminum boats don't seem to corrode even in sea water, at least not withour help from dissimilar metals or shore power. We have a magnesium ladder that has been out in the weather, hung for storage on the outside of a shed, for fifty years. It got darker, is the only sign of weathering. Casady |
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Opppps, Brain Fart !!!
Zinc (-1.0v) less reactive than Mg (-1.6v). Still the rest applies: galvalnic isolator, common bonding through the AC ground, reference cell, etc., etc. |
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