Boom end clean up

[Christian Williams]

Marvelous, fascinating and ground-breaking. The possibilities really are endless.

In the meantime, for a Kenyon gooseneck with deteriorated ears, there is a DIY mechanical fix for $100.

 

[bgary]

There's a layer of corrosion between the paint and good metal, so if the paint is dissolved, burned off, or mechanically removed, I still have to remove the corrosion. You can see it in close up picture of the fitting. it's a white layer between the blue paint and shiny metal.

Are you sure it is (was) corrosion? There's often an initial coat of an etching primer applied when painting aluminum...