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The mounting method is identical. But what to do about the smaller stalks?

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The mounting method is identical. But what to do about the smaller stalks?

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Well what I did was take an awl and lightly score the inside of the mirror mount vertically around the entire inner mount surface. Then I used some more black gloss enamel paint to make the stalk surface wet with paint and dribbled some play sand on it and let it dry. Now the mirror stalk was rough too. Well that certainly won’t make up 2mm of stalk thickness! My next step was to get some copper plumber’s strapping and cut a small piece off that would wrap the mirror stalk. A little tapping and crimping with channel locks and the copper strap was wrapped around the smaller stalk on the new mirrors. Now….. The copper and the mirror mount are not going to play nice together due to galvanic action and the mirror stalk is probably yet a third metal. So we would have two batteries going. But through the miracle of the electrical industry there is a chemical paste called No-Ox that you can coat parts with that are dissimilar metals and they will last years without rusting. So I put some on

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