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Old 03-02-2013, 03:53 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Marin View Post
The company-- PYI-- that designed and fabricated the short tower we installed under our then-new Furuno radome pre-drilled the holes, radiused all edges including the holes, powder coated the tower, and included nylon (or whatever) inserts to isolate the tower from the stainless fasteners that went through it. So far so good in terms of corrosion or powder coat lifting.

They make god stuff most of the time...they have had some bad shipments years ago...hopefully all corrected. I have used those nylon inserts with towers...didn't remember who used them...hopefully all now. But if you powedercoat..you do have to be more carefull in my opiniion.
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