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Old 02-22-2022, 09:34 AM   #57
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What brand do you use and why?
If there is an OEM available aluminum anode, we use it. Many of our equipment manufacturers now have such. Otherwise, we us Navalloy. Now, Navalloy was originally sold by SciCast in Pennsylvania, but we get ours from Performance Metals which uses Caldwell Casting in Maryland. Performance specializes in this product for boating applications rather than being a huge metal shop. Our engineers praise their consistency of manufacturing. We do not encounter differences lot to lot. Like most major aluminum anodes they are also cadmium free. If we were on the west coast we might use someone else. Would love to hear your comments. We like that Performance Metals only deals in Aluminum and that they are specialists in anodes for boating users.

A couple of additional notes. First, Maryland has proposed a ban on zinc anodes and California has had some talk.

Second, there is a supply chain issue on magnesium anodes for any fresh water boaters. Why? Although there is magnesium in the US, magnesium anodes are all from China according to Farwest.

Oh, and we recently switched to Navalloy on Yamahas because of problems getting them from Yamaha and inconsistent manufacturing, with very slight fit differences from order to order.

So, I got educated overnight by those more knowledgeable than I am.
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