{"id":7506,"date":"2009-09-24T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2009-09-23T02:25:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T07:25:40","slug":"why-you-should-periodically-check-your-heat-exchangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/why-you-should-periodically-check-your-heat-exchangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Periodically Check Your Heat Exchangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/onitor-revised-203.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty heat exchanger\" width=\"486\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have just gotten around to removing the end caps on  our engine heat exchangers. The first time since launching. As you can see, this was somewhat overdue!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The debris is mainly bits of sacrificial zinc anodes. The starboard engine was much cleaner.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/onitor-revised-214.jpg\" alt=\"cleaning heat exchanger\" width=\"576\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We used a piece of 4mm (3\/16&#8243;) welding rod to check the heat exchanger tubes for debris (they were clean).<\/p>\n<p>The Deere manual recommends a heat exchanger check every 1200 hours. We will henceforth adhere to this regimen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just gotten around to removing the end caps on our engine heat exchangers. The first time since launching. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/why-you-should-periodically-check-your-heat-exchangers\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}