aluminum/brass reaction?
I would like to tap a barbed fitting into the aluminum gearcase of my
outboard motor. I cannot find stainless barbed fittings and I assume brass and aluminum touching under salt water is a no- no. If I tap the aluminum to take a stainless 1/4" bushing and then thread in a 1/8" barbed brass fitting will there still be corrosion problems. There are several zinc anodes on the motor and aluminum hull. |
aluminum/brass reaction?
mark wrote:
I would like to tap a barbed fitting into the aluminum gearcase of my outboard motor. I cannot find stainless barbed fittings and I assume brass and aluminum touching under salt water is a no- no. If I tap the aluminum to take a stainless 1/4" bushing and then thread in a 1/8" barbed brass fitting will there still be corrosion problems. There are several zinc anodes on the motor and aluminum hull. Umm - first question - why? -- Volunteer your idle computer time for cancer research http//www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm Return address courtesy of Spammotel http://www.spammotel.com/ |
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aluminum/brass reaction?
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:20:32 GMT, "mark"
wrote: I would like to tap a barbed fitting into the aluminum gearcase of my outboard motor. I cannot find stainless barbed fittings and I assume brass and aluminum touching under salt water is a no- no. If I tap the aluminum to take a stainless 1/4" bushing and then thread in a 1/8" barbed brass fitting will there still be corrosion problems. There are several zinc anodes on the motor and aluminum hull. Stainless and aluminum are also not good together. The zinc anodes won't help much if they're very far from the joint because the local return path for current is much shorter (hence lower resistance) than the path from the Zn anode. A strong plastic fitting would be best. It would be best to make your own, using a relatively small thru-hole to get plenty of wall thickness. That could be a bushing or adaptor; then the barb (more moment on long barb) could be made of brass. I would make an aluminum barbed fitting and then hard- anodize it. Anodizing will keep the threads from galling, and presents an electrically non-conductive surface. Probably more screwing around than you want to do. |
aluminum/brass reaction?
I have fitted a brass barbed fitting to my outboard's leg. It is higher
up though, where the exhaust relief port is located. My outboard is in a semi closed well and this port would fill the well with smoke and starve the motor of air. The barb has a hose fitted which leads the fumes out the transom via another ( plastic) barb. There are no corrosion problems after about 6 years use, mainly because the barb gets well oiled from the two stroke exhaust. Klaus |
aluminum/brass reaction?
I once drilled a hole in the center of the upper drain/fill plug and fitted
a small hose to it, I then was able to put a sight/fill cup in the boat above the gearcase height, worked for me this was on a Mercury I/O. The stainless fill plug has a nylon washer so there is no contact with the AL on the water side of things, just the oil side. "mark" wrote in message ... I would like to tap a barbed fitting into the aluminum gearcase of my outboard motor. I cannot find stainless barbed fittings and I assume brass and aluminum touching under salt water is a no- no. If I tap the aluminum to take a stainless 1/4" bushing and then thread in a 1/8" barbed brass fitting will there still be corrosion problems. There are several zinc anodes on the motor and aluminum hull. |
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