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Reason you can't slip some teflon sheet in there is because the tang edges aren't parallel?
In Response To: Straightening aluminum boom tang 
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() Sometimes some riggers have slip sheets -- say about the thickness of a few sheets of thick paper.
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- Straightening aluminum boom tang
- I would ask the guy who owns the boatyard where you store
- If they are aluminum plate you can bend them..
- Reason you can't slip some teflon sheet in there is because the tang edges aren't parallel?
- Max, it looks like a weld in that picture?
- If that is a casting
- Hi Max...
- I wouldn't worry about breaking the aluminum plates as much as I would the welds but it does't look too bad from here...
- Thanks for the thoughts
- I would ask the guy who owns the boatyard where you store