Oh yes I saw that but I was thinking the bronze permanent setup would be better and that setup looked expensive
I didn't like the metal flush caps because they use solder. And I didn't trust the PVC bulkhead fitting to leave on the strainer all the time. So I made a flush cap by using a marelon through-hull fitting with the regular plastic cap. https://defender.com/en_us/forespar...c160bb1d5&utm_term=4580153138713961#493=33763
These are the ones I am talking about. The fitting is soldered into the cap.
What boat do u have?
This is from my Princess 56 Fly. It has a Groco strainer on the AC raw water circuit. The mains have Guidi strainers and the generator has a Vetus strainer. I've made flush caps for all of them.
Damn nice work I’m getting motivated
This a close up of the one of those caps on my boat. It’s not soldered. Everything is screwed and has sealant.
Where did u get all the parts? They don’t look like Home Depot fittings lol
True. The ones I have are about a full flow as you can get. I only use the flush cap on the main when it’s at idle. Rust gives enough flow to avoid an issue. I also don’t close the seacock so no risk of cooling water starvation.
They are not. It’s from Seaboard, same one you linked to as “soldered”.
If you sourced an assembled bronze Groco flush cap from Seaboard Marine it is soldered. That's how they make them. On request they will send you the parts and you can assemble them yourself. I am not aware of other suppliers of this product, but maybe there are. You don't say where you sourced them or whether you assembled them yourself, so I can't comment much more on those possibilities. In any event, I prefer to minimize the number of different metals in my raw water sytem to avoid or at least mitigate corrosion and/or electrolysis.
That wasn’t me that linked as soldered
