Bronze Intake Strainer ??????

[thefishingfreak]

If it's just the screw over the top scoop, just smear some paint on it.
Barnacles will clog it up.
Full thru hull, with valve, has to be grounded like mentioned above
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[nightfighter]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

some times they crust with barnacles if you don't paint them....if you go to bronze it needs to be bonded lest you risk sinking the boat due to electrolysis....

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

If it's just the screw over the top scoop, just smear some paint on it.
Barnacles will clog it up.
Full thru hull, with valve, has to be grounded like mentioned above
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

The electrolysis is the big issue. Check out your zincs when you haul it out. All it takes is a boat with a bad ground on the next dock to wreak havoc on your boat's parts. Sometimes it's the marina that's discharging.... If I were in a marina, I would hang huge sacrificial zinc fish every time I tied up the boat.....

[Van]

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

If it's just the screw over the top scoop, just smear some paint on it.
Barnacles will clog it up.
Full thru hull, with valve, has to be grounded like mentioned above
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

OK...paint it.

It should be isolated from anything else. The only metal parts hanging in the water are the engine bracket with its zinc, and the plug which is bronze and still as good as day 1. Funny though, my bronze through hull with valve has never been grounded either and is perfect. 20 years and counting.

Thanks all. Now I have to go get the trailer, drive to the ramp, haul it, screw the stupid thing in place and put her right back in and bring the trailer back to where i store it. (maybe a short trip to a gas station would be in order too...I'll wait until the tank is near empty)