While my IC-9100 is in the shop and as I await a new 2 meter antenna I decided to deal with what I had let go - rust on hardware and rust on the rotor elevation bracket. The good old Dremel helped to get 90% of the rust off the U shaped el rotor mounting bracket and el boom u bolts, but I'm wondering what to use to paint over these items to inhibit rust in the future? Any ideas other than rust oleum? I'll off course use stainless hardware to replace the cheap stuff Yaesu gives you as I did the last time I rebuilt the rotor. Also replacing both feed lines. I hope this will tide me for many many more years.
73 Rick, W2JAZ
Maybe put down a layer of "cold galvanize" paint before the Rust-O-Leum?
73, Jim KQ6EA
On 04/19/2016 07:44 PM, Richard Lawn wrote:
While my IC-9100 is in the shop and as I await a new 2 meter antenna I decided to deal with what I had let go - rust on hardware and rust on the rotor elevation bracket. The good old Dremel helped to get 90% of the rust off the U shaped el rotor mounting bracket and el boom u bolts, but I'm wondering what to use to paint over these items to inhibit rust in the future? Any ideas other than rust oleum? I'll off course use stainless hardware to replace the cheap stuff Yaesu gives you as I did the last time I rebuilt the rotor. Also replacing both feed lines. I hope this will tide me for many many more years.
73 Rick, W2JAZ
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