My wife bought a shaft and I told my wife to get aquamet 19 if they had it but they gave her aquamet 17. Aquamet 19 is a version of 304 stainless that is nonmagnetic. The 17 is magnetic stainless. This concerns me. I am having a stainless coupling made so I won't have the same problem seperating the shaft from the coupling next time. But I am not sure how the magnetic stainless will do in the salt water. Most of us don't haul in the winter down here. So we have to keep an eye on our zincs.
This is my question. Do you guys paint your shafts and props with primer and bottom paint? I don't want to paint the shaft because then I won't be able to easily remove it later through the new cutlass bearing. But crap grows sooo fast down here. I don't know what to do.
Also all I have is ablative paint. So I am thinking that is I paint the prop it will just get blasted off anyway.
This is my question. Do you guys paint your shafts and props with primer and bottom paint? I don't want to paint the shaft because then I won't be able to easily remove it later through the new cutlass bearing. But crap grows sooo fast down here. I don't know what to do.
Also all I have is ablative paint. So I am thinking that is I paint the prop it will just get blasted off anyway.
