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- From: zielke@hemlock.nrl.navy.mil (David Zielke)
- Subject: Re: Question about zinc...
- In-Reply-To: jfh@cs.brown.edu's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:10:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <ZIELKE.92Nov16104430@hemlock.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov16.141043.14356@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:44:30 GMT
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- > My boat has a Westerbeke 4-107 diesel. This is connected to the seawater by
- > the prop shaft, but there's a rubber doughnut between the two halves of the
- > prop coupler, which effectively insulates the shaft from the engine. I put a
- > zinc on the prop shaft this past year (a "doughnut zinc"---about 1"
- > fore-and-aft, and about 3" OD, with a 7/8" hole in the middle for the shaft
- > to pass through. The result: after 5.5 months in the water, the zinc is
- > about 25% gone. Is this about normal?
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- Don't know on this one, went over the side on Botany Bay to check the one on
- the end of the shaft and found it was GONE!!! However, I went to look at it
- again and realized that the screw holding it on was also gone and everything
- was a little too clean for it to have corroded off. I assume it came loose
- and fell off. I will use a collar type when I haul. I am currently using a
- hang over the side type to protect the prop.
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- > The result: usually the zinc is almost completely gone; the pencil has
- > broken off somewhere in the middle, and the "stub" is lying around on the
- > bottom of the exchanger, along with sundry other bits of broken zinc.
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- I have a perkins 4-107 which is basically the same engine. I find that my
- pencil zinc in the heat exchanger is about 80% gone at the 6 month point. I
- have taken to replacing it every six months. I assume this is rather
- normal.
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- David Zielke
- 'Botany Bay'
- Cal 35 Hull 006
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- zielke@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil
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