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--- Quote from: Alma on January 17, 2014, 08:20:22 AM ---... I pulled all the Al castings from the extrusions and replaced the self tappers with allen head  cap screws into Heli-Coils in the castings. ...

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Man, what a great idea!  I wish I had thought of it last winter when I had everything apart and sandblasted!

I put TefGel on every single screw in the mast & boom when I reassembled, in the hopes of staving off galvanic corrosion and making them easy to extract in the future.

Sea Haven:
Alma,


--- Quote ---I had my mast off to strip the paint and install new maststep last Spring.
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Did you just strip the paint off and leave the aluminum natural? Or is there a finish over it?

I so want to refinish the mast but the budget isn't there to re-anodize or paint it. I prefer the natural aluminum look but can't seem to find a definitive answer for a finish so it won't oxidize over time.

"Sub" Ed

Alma:
French boats use bare aluminum hulls (above the waterline) all the time. I have only had one season with the mast stripped of it's black paint. It looks fine. I used aircraft stripper (paint remover) on advice of a friend who said it may have anodizing under the paint I shouldn't sand away. I initially had trouble with the remover. I used plastic wrap to keep the stripper wet on the mast yet it wasn't cutting the paint- especially the tough yellow primer under the black.

It turned out it wasn't warm enough weather. When it warmed up the job went easy-ier.

The bright silver aluminum looks so sharp compared to my spotty black painted spar. I had the boom refinished glossy black a number of years ago so I left the boom black. The mast looked like the camouflage on submarine periscopes before!

For fun I painted the spreaders "Tangerine" like my little '69 911S! Easy to see in a roiling sea and so fun.

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