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Old 01-03-2017, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by OM617YOTA View Post
Is your mirror mount aluminum, or pot metal? Usually I think of potmetal being zinc or similar.

(Tangentially connected) I've also wondered if zinc sacrificial anodes would help keep cars from corroding, the way they do ships and such.
Also they both tend to have the same kinda corrosion except in aluminum the extreme examples- its more ~flaky, seen it with lots of aircraft hardware.
I would bet this jeep mirror base is potmetal, and if the owner is in the northeast... its already kinda ate up, so you gotta etch out the pits buggering up , and fill with something, I wouldn't bother with anything more than u-pol dolphin glaze putty , then sand, primer with whatever primer and repaint.
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