On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:53:27 -0400, L G wrote:

Harryk wrote:
True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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On Mar 24, 10:18 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:34 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
Got my fully tinned wire for my trailer and put it on so now I have
trailer lights again. However while doing it, I found that all of the
bolts and nuts on the trailer are so badly corroded they will not last
another season. I probably need about $100 of stainless hardware to
replace them. I thought EZ Loader was quality but it isn't. What
would a bit of stainless or hot dipped galv bolts have cost them?

Go to a real fastener place and you might save a few bucks but
stainless is the way to go on a salt water trailer. I started out a
couple bolts at a time as they got nasty but I bit that bullet too
after a few rounds of swapping out rusted bolts.

The leaf springs are also rusting badly, not sure what to do about
them.

*******************
By new ones if you're that concerned... they aren't very expensive.


If you wash your trailer after you use it, and maintain it, you'll
have far fewer problems than Froggy seems to have. Maintenance to him
seems to be "ignore it until it breaks."

While I realize this is one of your signature attack posts, there is a
problem with your "advice". People who use their boats often - a
concept that is foreign to you - don't always have the luxury of rinsing
their trailers until they arrive back at the dock or their home. That
leaves a trailer in the sun for hours with sal****er on it after the launch.

You don't think Harry carried a generator, high pressure pump, and a fifty
gallon drum of fresh water in his 4Runner when he launched the 'Yo Ho'?

You just don't give people enough credit.

John H wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:53:27 -0400, L wrote:

Harryk wrote:
True North wrote:

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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On Mar 24, 10:18 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:34 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
Got my fully tinned wire for my trailer and put it on so now I have
trailer lights again. However while doing it, I found that all of the
bolts and nuts on the trailer are so badly corroded they will not last
another season. I probably need about $100 of stainless hardware to
replace them. I thought EZ Loader was quality but it isn't. What
would a bit of stainless or hot dipped galv bolts have cost them?
Go to a real fastener place and you might save a few bucks but
stainless is the way to go on a salt water trailer. I started out a
couple bolts at a time as they got nasty but I bit that bullet too
after a few rounds of swapping out rusted bolts.
The leaf springs are also rusting badly, not sure what to do about
them.

*******************
By new ones if you're that concerned... they aren't very expensive.

If you wash your trailer after you use it, and maintain it, you'll
have far fewer problems than Froggy seems to have. Maintenance to him
seems to be "ignore it until it breaks."

While I realize this is one of your signature attack posts, there is a
problem with your "advice". People who use their boats often - a
concept that is foreign to you - don't always have the luxury of rinsing
their trailers until they arrive back at the dock or their home. That
leaves a trailer in the sun for hours with sal****er on it after the launch.

You don't think Harry carried a generator, high pressure pump, and a fifty
gallon drum of fresh water in his 4Runner when he launched the 'Yo Ho'?

You just don't give people enough credit.


D'oh. The marina at BP has lots of fresh water outlets and hoses. After
I launched the boat and while it was tied to one of the finger piers, I
simply towed the trailer 50 feet to the nearest hose and rinsed off the
wheels and brakes. After using the boat and retrailering it, I washed
down the whole trailer.

I'm not the one whose trailer was rusting away.

Frogwatch wrote:
On Mar 25, 7:55 pm, L wrote:

Lil Abner wrote:

On 3/25/2011 7:52 AM, OmDeFlume wrote:

On 3/24/2011 11:25 PM, Lil Abner wrote:

On 3/24/2011 8:57 PM, Frogwatch wrote:

Got my fully tinned wire for my trailer and put it on so now I have
trailer lights again. However while doing it, I found that all of the
bolts and nuts on the trailer are so badly corroded they will not last
another season. I probably need about $100 of stainless hardware to
replace them. I thought EZ Loader was quality but it isn't. What
would a bit of stainless or hot dipped galv bolts have cost them?

What about sacraficial anodes? They come in many sizes and shapes.
Of course you will still have to replace the rusted hdw now.
I don't know that it would work but seems like it should.


Zincs need to be submerged in water to become an anode.

I'm not sure of the science behind it. If moisture, in the air, and
natural electricity was making it to ground it would rust or a
sacrificial anode could take it's place? You would think rubber tires
would insulate it sufficiently but perhaps the jack stand is the route?
If none of this makes sense oh well.

None of that applies if the trailer is out of the water.

I am really sorta surprised at how much corrosion there is on the
bolts and the springs and much less on the body. I do rinse it after
every use so am not sure why the extreme corrosion. I think the
original bolts were just zinc coated and not really galvanized whereas
the body may have more zinc on it. I will probably replace the
original bolts with hot dipped galvanized so as to minimize dissimilar
metals in contact.

Galvanized means they have a zinc coating. There are several types of
galvanization - electro-galvanized is a thin zinc coating. Hot dipped
is much thicker.

One solution to your problem is to carry a pump sprayer filled with
clean water to hit the problem areas after you launch if a hose isn't
available. By the time you rinse it after you retrieve the boat, the
damage has already started.

John H wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:53:27 -0400, L wrote:


Harryk wrote:

True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...


On Mar 24, 10:18 pm, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:34 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:

Got my fully tinned wire for my trailer and put it on so now I have
trailer lights again. However while doing it, I found that all of the
bolts and nuts on the trailer are so badly corroded they will not last
another season. I probably need about $100 of stainless hardware to
replace them. I thought EZ Loader was quality but it isn't. What
would a bit of stainless or hot dipped galv bolts have cost them?

Go to a real fastener place and you might save a few bucks but
stainless is the way to go on a salt water trailer. I started out a
couple bolts at a time as they got nasty but I bit that bullet too
after a few rounds of swapping out rusted bolts.

The leaf springs are also rusting badly, not sure what to do about
them.

*******************
By new ones if you're that concerned... they aren't very expensive.


If you wash your trailer after you use it, and maintain it, you'll
have far fewer problems than Froggy seems to have. Maintenance to him
seems to be "ignore it until it breaks."


While I realize this is one of your signature attack posts, there is a
problem with your "advice". People who use their boats often - a
concept that is foreign to you - don't always have the luxury of rinsing
their trailers until they arrive back at the dock or their home. That
leaves a trailer in the sun for hours with sal****er on it after the launch.

You don't think Harry carried a generator, high pressure pump, and a fifty
gallon drum of fresh water in his 4Runner when he launched the 'Yo Ho'?

You just don't give people enough credit.

He launched them both maybe a half dozen times each, right? That is
different than a regular boater.

BTW - a gas pressure washer and a drum of water would be cheaper than
the outfit you suggested.