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letitride
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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City/Region: San Jose
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Vessel Name: No Limits
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Here in sunny california our freeways are so bad that towing with a single axel is just painfully bumpy for both the tow rig and boat, it can be done but a dual axel heavy trailer rides so much nicer  |
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Karl Konecny
Joined: 09 May 2019
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City/Region: Glide
State or Province: OR
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Vessel Name: Nowhere Fast
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Since aluminum trailers were brought up, I have a question about them. Does anyone mount anodes on them to counteract potential corrosion near the steel axel?
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ssobol
Joined: 27 Oct 2012
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City/Region: SW Michigan
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Vessel Name: SoBELLE
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Karl Konecny wrote: | | Since aluminum trailers were brought up, I have a question about them. Does anyone mount anodes on them to counteract potential corrosion near the steel axel? |
Not sure how anodes would help. Trailers are not usually in the water long enough for much corrosion prevention to occur. You can argue that there might be some dissimilar metal corrosion to occur when the Al touches the steel, but if that were actually a big deal, the trailer manufacturers would already have done something about it. |
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T.R. Bauer
Joined: 17 Nov 2007
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City/Region: Wasilla
State or Province: AK
C-Dory Year: 1993
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Karl Konecny wrote: | | Since aluminum trailers were brought up, I have a question about them. Does anyone mount anodes on them to counteract potential corrosion near the steel axel? |
Most if not all of the hardware has nylon washers/spacers to help prevent galvanic corrosion between the steel hardware and the aluminum superstructure on the better quality trailers I have seen and worked on. I don't think putting an anode on a steel axle would help with corrosion as they were designed to work in the water and not the atmosphere. I have seen rusted axles that had to be replaced, but they were well over 20 years old and the trailers were at the end of the lifespan anyway. |
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