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Re: salt water and my new trailer
Originally Posted by cuda
(Post 1984899)
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.:( |
Re: salt water and my new trailer
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. |
Re: salt water and my new trailer
Originally Posted by HOTPURSUIT2
(Post 1985107)
well, your axles I am assuming are hot dip galvanized steel, and the springs.. there is not much you can do to the springs, being that they cannot be galvanized. So yeah, sounds like you got some excellent life out of your trailer..
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Re: salt water and my new trailer
Originally Posted by cuda
(Post 1984919)
I just for the life of me cannot see why someone would buy a steel trailer over an aluminum. Some say aluminum flexes more when towing, but I've never felt it.
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Re: salt water and my new trailer
Originally Posted by cuda
(Post 1984917)
Au contrair! I have a friend who is slightly anal about his boat maintainence. We have a Donzi meet every year in Sarasota. Last year, his aluminum trailer looked like polished stainless steel. This year it looked like it was dipped in chrome.:cool:
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:D:D BTW, What brand is his trailer? |
Re: salt water and my new trailer
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 |
Re: salt water and my new trailer
Originally Posted by 2112
(Post 1985385)
BTW, What brand is his trailer? |
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