Re: steel hull, zinc anodes
- From: "News f2s" <jimb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:10:16 -0000
"purple_stars" <webnews1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> hi folks, quick question ...
>
> i've been reading a lot about sacrificial zincs for protecting
> steel
> hulls and i haven't been able to figure out from my reading
> where they
> are mounted. my reading material says how they are mounted,
> like
> welding, or hanging on metal wires, etc, and it says where they
> are
> mounted in relation to each other ... that is, certain distance
> apart
> to protect such-and-such square feet of hull, etc ... but i have
> more
> basic questions like, do they have to be on the outside of the
> hull or
> can they be inside ? and .. do they have to be submerged in
> seawater
> or do they work in the air ? i can't tell if you have to weld
> them to
> the underside of the boat so that they are in the seawater or if
> you
> can just hang them from a wire inside the boat somewhere in the
> air
> where they aren't in the way (while being electrically connected
> to the
> hull of course).
In the sea water, outside the hull. Usually bolted on to studs
welded onto the hull, but also hung by wires from the rail.
--
JimB
http://www.jimbaerselman.f2s.com/sw_peloponese.htm
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