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Portable Charger or Onboard Charger
I didn't loose a charger but other things like:
battery cables that had steel ends rusted into two pieces. a Perko batery selector switch that somehow got water inside and drained batteries and apparently shorted out the rectifyer charging circuit. Even though used, I just replaced the axles and springs (one axle was new three years ago!) studs on the engine, exposed threads are rusted badly etc, etc, Sound terrible. You must be living near a beach with all the salty air coming from the ocean to rust everything out. Jay Chan |
#12
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I guess the lesson I've learned is to clean, protect, rinse, and remove any
salt deposits or any suspected deposits from any steel. Deposits are not so bad (where easily seen) on glass, aluminum and fiberglass. Although I have an "aluminum" trailer which is relatively unaffected by the salt, I now do a through rinse job on the steel wheels, axles, springs, wheeled jack, exposed steel fasteners on the engine and do a freshwater flush when I get back to the house. It dawned on me that in spite of the care I now take, the trailer sets out all day after launching the boat, potentially rusting away while I'm out fishing. Time permitting, I try to inspect the axles and all steel hardware on the trailer at the launch when the boat is off and even take a wet (fresh water) sponge, wipe off the salt at a nick and touch up with a can of Rust-Oleum. Hopefully this will make the equipment last much longer. LD wrote in message ups.com... I didn't loose a charger but other things like: battery cables that had steel ends rusted into two pieces. a Perko batery selector switch that somehow got water inside and drained batteries and apparently shorted out the rectifyer charging circuit. Even though used, I just replaced the axles and springs (one axle was new three years ago!) studs on the engine, exposed threads are rusted badly etc, etc, Sound terrible. You must be living near a beach with all the salty air coming from the ocean to rust everything out. Jay Chan |
#13
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LD wrote:
I guess the lesson I've learned is to clean, protect, rinse, and remove any salt deposits or any suspected deposits from any steel. Deposits are not so bad (where easily seen) on glass, aluminum and fiberglass. Although I have an "aluminum" trailer which is relatively unaffected by the salt, I now do a through rinse job on the steel wheels, axles, springs, wheeled jack, exposed steel fasteners on the engine and do a freshwater flush when I get back to the house. It dawned on me that in spite of the care I now take, the trailer sets out all day after launching the boat, potentially rusting away while I'm out fishing. Time permitting, I try to inspect the axles and all steel hardware on the trailer at the launch when the boat is off and even take a wet (fresh water) sponge, wipe off the salt at a nick and touch up with a can of Rust-Oleum. Hopefully this will make the equipment last much longer. LD I've wondered if it would be worthwhile taking along one of the hand pump, pressurized garden sprayers full of fresh water. You could give a quick spray as soon as the trailer comes out of the water.... should help until a proper hosing can be done. |
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I've wondered if it would be worthwhile taking along one of the hand
pump, pressurized garden sprayers full of fresh water. You could give a quick spray as soon as the trailer comes out of the water.... should help until a proper hosing can be done. This sounds like an interesting idea. We should get one with a metal tip (where the water comes out). The plastic one is no good. The spray is not even if we use a plastic tip. It tends to wet the surface (that it is designed for), but not wash away stuff from the surface. In order to wash away stuff, we need to spray the same area long enough. This is still probably better than not doing anything at all. Jay Chan |