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Anode Replacement
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Re: Anode Replacement
Determine it is zinc, aluminum or magnesium. If its zinc you may want to replace it with the others as they should all be the same.
I am in mostly fresh water but often travel into brackish water. I use aluminum anodes.
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Re: Anode Replacement
ZC-406M, You need 1 of these. http://www.boatzincs.com/ZC-406M.html
No bother price shopping as I already did it for you.
Carver does not bother to ask where the boat is going to be used, they just deliver all of them with zinc however going to magnesium for fresh water is the correct route for the best protection.
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Re: Anode Replacement
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Re: Anode Replacement
I only use aluminum in fresh water inboard applications now. Ya magnesium is more active and is great for aluminum sterndrives but considering the running gear on inboard applications is stainless and bronze, aluminum is active enough for those metals, will last longer than magnesium, and is less expensive.
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Re: Anode Replacement
Then again Carver put useless zinc on my fresh water boat which have been in place for 10 years and there are no signs of corrosion that I can see. Maybe I was lucky to not be in a hot marina/environment or maybe the Charles isolation transformer Carver used just works very well or maybe a combo of both. As Viper said, running gear is stainless and bronze unlike problematic outdrives that are very prone to this problem. As a matter of fact, I cannot recall reading about corrosion issues on inboard boats like we have here.
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Re: Anode Replacement
My boat was the same, had zinc on it , looked like brand new ,on the first year I changed to the correct anodes you could see evidence of activity.....now the trick here is to get all your dockmates on the bandwagon so you are not protecting everyone else.
Edit...to add...there is no possible way to explain this fully in just a few short sentences, but the overall idea is here. That said, suffice it to say ,just protect your boat with the correct anodes for the areas that you boat in and in most cases all should be well.
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Re: Anode Replacement
- Midnightsun
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Re: Anode Replacement
Pricing between the zinc and aluminum was about $2 cheaper for the entire set for the zinc compared to aluminum and like I said about $30 more for the Mag over the Alu. All in all it is not very expensive and very easy to change out when on the hard. Even rather easy to do with a mask and a deep breath while in the water if push comes to shove.
- Midnightsun
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Re: Anode Replacement
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