Anodes on the cheap

[LeonF]

Anyone know of a cheap source of anodes. I've just lifted my boat and the two prop shaft anodes are wasted away. I know this means they are working but I don't want to spend the £14 each that I did last season. They are 25mm. I'm in the South London/ Kent area.Ta.

L.A.R.Ferguson

 

[Freebee]

try www.zincsmart.com

 

[Avocet]

MG Duff will sell direct to the public but they're not much cheaper than chandlers.

 

[Piers]

If they've wasted away, they are, as you say, doing their job. Without the anodes, other more expensive metal is being eaten.

Hence, always fit good quality anodes - they are well worth it. MG Duff - 01243 533336.

Piers du Pré
www.playdeau.com

 

[Allanrichard]

This company supply our Yacht Clubs anodes for our pontoons etc. I have been using their anodes on my boat for years. Very impressed with the company. And it's in Kent !

MME Engineering Ltd
Unit 3 The Shipyard, Upper Brents
Faversham ME13 7DZ (Road Map)


Tel 01795 535559
Fax 01795 536374
Internet URL not known


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Products and Services from MME Engineering Ltd
Anodes - Cathodic Protection
Anodes - Zinc

 

[snowleopard]

free?

made some by melting down scrap ones found lying around the yard. melted them in an old can using a blowtorch, skimmed off the slag and poured into a mould. probably erode quicker than new ones but at the price...

 

[dickh]

I've also used MME this year - just remove the old one last weekend - well corroded but, unusually, only one half ¾ disappeared - the other coated in a hard whitish substance with v little erosion - what is this?
The contact with the shaft is apparently a copper? ball in the centre of each half that clamps on the shaft and makes contact with it. Bothe these 'balls' were clean & making contact - also the anodes do not have an internal metal strip which the screws are tapped into and I'm sure if it had been left a few more weeks it would have fallen off.
BUT it was about half the price of MG Duff so was worth it, but why was only one half apparently working??

Have just spoken to MME - did not know what the whitish substance was - I will fit the anode next year so that each blade on the prop can 'see' one half of the anode

dickh
I'd rather be sailing... <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by dickh on 12/11/2002 13:39 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[mtb]

I got six for the tug last year including postage it was £99.00 from Diemoss they are in Kent.
The anodes come from Canada
cheers
Mick

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boats
I want a big steel ex trawler or tug v, cheap or swap for tug

 

[rex]

Did you see the reply by Heerenleed to the anodes post. I had the same effect and kept the boat half and half in fresh and salt water. Is this the case with you?

 

[dickh]

Rex,
Thanks for the reply, my boat is kept on a swinging mooring at the mouth of the River Deben so is always in salt water. Although the river is fed by fresh water this is about 12 miles upstream so I don't think it will have any appreciable effect where I am moored.


dickh
I'd rather be sailing...

 

[richardandtracy]

Re: free?

Very unlikely to erode quicker - when you cast your own, it's the same material after all.

If you do cast your own - remember to avoid getting in the fumes from the zinc - very nasty stuff & may make you ill for a few days. Whatever you do, DON'T BOIL THE ZINC, just makes the fume problem 100x worse.

Regards

Richard