When I did my T-bucket (and before the monoleaf) I disassembled mine, smoothed all of the edges plus rounded the ends, primed with DuPont Variprime (would use epoxy now) then shot them with black Imron. When I reassembled them I used a better (real !!)center bolt plus lined them with Posie's poly liner so they would slide better.

B-u-u-t I will say Flamingo pink really sounds better