[Rhodes22-list] Aluminum Mast Finish

[Jb]

Ed,
is that a spray on finish or is it annodized?
If someone painted over the annodized aluminum, you can remove the paint 
without effecting the corrosion resistance of the annodizing.
Jb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net>
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Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:20 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Aluminum Mast Finish


>
> 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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