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Old 06-02-2010, 03:56 PM
seabob4 seabob4 is offline
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Default Re: Rub Rail Question

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Got mine thru West Marine it is a Taco black with stainless.

A new question- how are you bending the stainless at your rear corners if you have used this product? Concave stainless does not want to bend around such a tight radius. Even tried with a pipe jig and hydraulic bender, no luck.
Secure the insert all the way back to the turn. Now take a rubber mallet in one hand, and push on the piece that's sticking out with the other. Start pounding with the mallet right at the radius while pushing with the other hand, it will bend around. You do need to pound with authority, but you don't have to wail on it. Basicall, with the mallet and your other hand, you're "walking" it around that radius...

Everyone except the cleaning girls at Wellcraft learned to rubrail. So I've installed a few...hundred rubrails... (probably more like a thousand!)
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