[Rhodes22-list] Aluminum Mast Finish

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Ed,
Thanks for the suggestion.  I asked Dwyer for their take on this.  Have you ever heard of an OE painted mast?
Art

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>From: Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net>
>Sent: Jun 1, 2008 8:20 PM
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list]  Aluminum Mast Finish
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>You would need to verify this from General boats, however, I suggest that
>Rhodes masts supplied by Dwyer have a clear corrosion coating.  I determined
>that my mast has such a coating when I tried to clean black marks off. 
>Therefore, in taking any Dwyer mast down to metal will ruin such coating if
>it is on all masts as I suspect.
>
>So anybody else with this idea needs to evaluate before doing so.  I left my
>mast original finish including not nice black marks.  The coating is there
>for a reason.
>
>Ed K
>Greenville, SC, USA
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