When the ball is totally screwed down, there should be 1/2" to no more than 5/8" gap of thread showing. Anything more will lead to the mast falling down.
Bob
"The election is over, the talking is done, Your party lost, my party won. So let us be friends, let arguments pass, I’ll hug my elephant, you kiss you’re a $$.”
Liberalism = A brain eating amoeba & a failed political ideology of the 20th century!
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