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impressed with bronze against aluminum

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:20 am
by Art Haberland
I was planning on originally replacing all of spark's hardware with bronze, but in seeing how well the bronze works in contrast with the silvery metal, I like it a lot.

Her spars are done, getting raised today on the trailer to see how they look. Next is running rigging and bending the sails on

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Re: impressed with bronze against aluminum

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:37 am
by wdscobie
Bronze and aluminum don't play well together. Safer using stainless (not perfect) or aluminum screws (depends on loads expected).

Re: impressed with bronze against aluminum

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:11 am
by Art Haberland
sadly you are correct. I just do not have time to do anything about it right now. Running out of time. Still looks pretty