Pencil Anodes.

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Just feeling very pleased with myself. We have a Westerbeke 8KW Generator set installed on our boat. It was a used one from ebay which I renovated and installed myself. A pencil anode for the heat exchanger from Westerbeke is 14 quid and they last a couple of months.

Solent Anodes, a most excellent company, supplied me two lengths of 10mm anode bar for about a tenner. Fifteen minutes on the lathe and vice with a die holder to put an M8 thread on the reduced bit has provided five new ones which can be screwed into the brass internally threaded housing. This has saved me £60.00 and I still have another length of anode bar in stock.

Yours Smugly, Rotrax........................................ :cool:
 
rotrax said:
Just feeling very pleased with myself. We have a Westerbeke 8KW Generator set installed on our boat. It was a used one from ebay which I renovated and installed myself. A pencil anode for the heat exchanger from Westerbeke is 14 quid and they last a couple of months.

Solent Anodes, a most excellent company, supplied me two lengths of 10mm anode bar for about a tenner. Fifteen minutes on the lathe and vice with a die holder to put an M8 thread on the reduced bit has provided five new ones which can be screwed into the brass internally threaded housing. This has saved me £60.00 and I still have another length of anode bar in stock.

Yours Smugly, Rotrax........................................ :cool:
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In true PBO spirit?
 
My previous boat had a Beta engine which required a pencil anode . At first I bought complete anodes, but then discovered that it was possible to buy a threaded base fitting into which I could insert the wasting zinc part. It's worth investigating if the Beta item would fit the Westerbeke heat exchanger, for those who don't have Rotrax's engineering skills and equipment.
 
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