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galvanized ?????

wrong, us professional riggers hate stainless, we curse it whenever we run into it. its crap, it siezes up when its torqued down, threads stretch making loosenig it an exercise of hell. btw we break it too when installing it, is brittle.
Actually stainless is not brittle at all, it's exactly the opposite and tends to be "gummy". And yes, when "armstrong" gets a wrench in his hand it will stretch and gall. But that's because it's fairly soft, lacks sulphur and phosphorus and work hardens easily.
 
on 5/16 stanless like they use for alot of antennas, i cant compress the lock washers without it seizing and becoming a !@$!@$ to loosen up.
 
on 5/16 stanless like they use for alot of antennas, i cant compress the lock washers without it seizing and becoming a !@$!@$ to loosen up.

If I found myself in that position, I'd probably chuck the lock washer. When you torque a bolt, you stretch it, that's what keeps it tight. With a steel bolt, you might need the lockwasher because stretching the bolt may be too much torque for the application (aluminum antenna). With a stainless bolt, you can stretch it much easier and could most likely get away without a lockwasher altogether.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of split type lockwashers anyway.
 
I use a second nut commonly referred too as double nutting or jam nutting which requires much less torquing of the first nut without the use of a split locking washer.
 
I use these:

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