Skip, Don't use brass in contact with seawater. It will "de-zincify". The copper and the zinc in seawater act as a battery and the zinc disappears. Failure typically happens in about a year so temporary is OK, but don't forget it.
Use plastic or if heat is involved, use bronze. West has some bronze threaded pipe fittings. Bronze has a red cast, while brass is yellowish. Sometimes bronze is called red brass. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > > We'd noted a great deal of salt on the starboard side of the > engine, and couldn't figure out where it had come from. The best > we could figure was that in the prior passage, during our radical > heel to port, with all the waves, that water must have gotten in, > falling to that location. However, just on the possibility that > it was, in fact, somehow coming from the engine or related stuff, > I started to go in the engine room on startup. Yikes! Water > everywhere. Shut her down, and go in to see if I can discover > the source. A cracked fitting! Dang! > > So, off it came and into Dad's Hardware Store to see if we had a > replacement. The fitting in question was not in stock, but two > other parts which, combined, would do the job, and, instead of > nylon, this time, it was brass. Now to replace the hose I had to > cut off to get to it. Hm. Nope. None seen. So, I scavenged > one from a fitting designed to redirect smoke, and set about > replacing the damaged or cut parts. > > When I get to a hardware store again shortly, I'll purchase the > right brass fitting to replace the broken one, return the other > two parts to stock, and use some of the leftover fuel hose to > replace the entire length of the hose which had seen a short >= _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
