The adventure continues -
I am cleaning up a bunch of items, removing corrosion, rust, etc. from a few parts that will be difficult to reach once the mast is up. One item is the mast step. This was "welded" to the mast from years of moisture, salt and aluminum to aluminum contact. I have attached some photos. I will need to clean up the inside of the mast too (no photos of the mast). It looks to me like the step may be anodized aluminum (it is a little hard to tell in its current condition. The mast definitely is anodized.
Any suggestions on how to clean this up? I have a few ideas, wire brush, scrape/sanding. Soaking in some solution???
I appreciate any insights. I also have a bunch of bolts that have corrosion, the bolts are good so would like to reuse them but they need to be cleaned up. I did the wire brush in a Dremel tool which worked ok but was a little time consuming.
Greg
I am cleaning up a bunch of items, removing corrosion, rust, etc. from a few parts that will be difficult to reach once the mast is up. One item is the mast step. This was "welded" to the mast from years of moisture, salt and aluminum to aluminum contact. I have attached some photos. I will need to clean up the inside of the mast too (no photos of the mast). It looks to me like the step may be anodized aluminum (it is a little hard to tell in its current condition. The mast definitely is anodized.
Any suggestions on how to clean this up? I have a few ideas, wire brush, scrape/sanding. Soaking in some solution???
I appreciate any insights. I also have a bunch of bolts that have corrosion, the bolts are good so would like to reuse them but they need to be cleaned up. I did the wire brush in a Dremel tool which worked ok but was a little time consuming.
Greg