salt water and my new trailer
01-07-2007, 02:02 AM
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Re: salt water and my new trailer
This is how prone aluminum trailers are to rusting. This aluminum trailer I bought new with my fishboat in 1988. It turns 19 years old next month.
I'm on the second axle, and third set of springs. There is nothing you can do to prevent the springs and axle from rusting. I completely undercoated the springs and axle before I ever dunked this trailer. I think if anything, it made the springs rust faster. There was no sign of the axle rusting......until it broke in half on the way to the Suwannee River on July 3rd.
I'm on the second axle, and third set of springs. There is nothing you can do to prevent the springs and axle from rusting. I completely undercoated the springs and axle before I ever dunked this trailer. I think if anything, it made the springs rust faster. There was no sign of the axle rusting......until it broke in half on the way to the Suwannee River on July 3rd.
01-07-2007, 05:18 AM
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http://www.plowsite.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68
The salt applied up here on the roads take a far more serious toll than dunkin the trailer. After a nights worth of plowing everything is encrusted in salt. May be worth to register into that site and email dano50 to get a free sample. I got free sample but while I was in KW the kid used used it all up to winterize the jet boat.
The salt applied up here on the roads take a far more serious toll than dunkin the trailer. After a nights worth of plowing everything is encrusted in salt. May be worth to register into that site and email dano50 to get a free sample. I got free sample but while I was in KW the kid used used it all up to winterize the jet boat.
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01-07-2007, 09:34 AM
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Re: salt water and my new trailer
The axles are regular steel, but it can be thicker, since it doesn't have to be flexible.
01-07-2007, 12:04 PM
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Re: salt water and my new trailer
Probably just the initial cost steers most people away from aluminum. Also the manufacturing process has to be a lot different since most of the aluminum trailers are all bolted together instead of welded.
01-07-2007, 12:20 PM
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No doubt, an impressive aluminum trailer. MOST do not look that good. Now does he have a errand boy wash and wax that after he dips it because I know polished aluminum will pit and corrode very nicely
BTW, What brand is his trailer?
01-07-2007, 01:17 PM
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On steel tube trailers we drill holes in the tops of the tubes near the tung. We then put in about 1 gallon of float coat per tube for a 40' trailer. This is the stuff they pump into salt water ballast tanks, offshore drilling rigs and into crawl spaces on ships. It's an environmentally safe oily material that prevents corrosion. It is lighter than water so it floats on the top when the water enters the tubes and leaves an oily film when the water recedes. It works great but make sure you carry the MSDS for it when you go to launch. If the Coasties see any film around your trailer they will have melt down until you show them the MSDS. We've used it on dozens of trailers and had little to no corrosion. However.... It doesn't help your axles and can only go where you put it so if you don't fill one of the cross tubes you'll get rot in that one.
The material is made by Cortec, the product is M-645.
http://www.cortecvci.com/Publications/PDS/M-645.pdf
The material is made by Cortec, the product is M-645.
http://www.cortecvci.com/Publications/PDS/M-645.pdf
