by GreenLake » Mon May 04, 2020 6:27 pm
Not all small businesses are e-commerce savvy. Rudy answers the phone and is a great resource to the DS community.
If I had a rubrail that is damaged (sections missing, for example) I would look hard at a replacement - and from the abuse that mine takes, I would definitely look at a like-for-like replacement. Yours is the extreme case of this, missing altogether; so you have no choice but to replace it with something. In your case, I would tend to view the replacement not as restoring the original appearance, so much as restoring the original function. Mine is definitely not just "decoration" and I'd never want to replace it by anything that isn't at least as durable.
However, as it turns out, mine is mainly discolored. So every once in a while I go an scrub it really hard with a mildly abrasive pad. Doesn't make it look like new, but takes away some of the oxidized outer layer and discolorations that are embedded. Will look good for a while, but there's a lot of gunk it will pick up from contact with the dock at the launch, so the effect isn't permanent.
For photos: this forum is a bit older tech so it doesn't convert things for you on upload like the social media platforms are doing. However, you can run photos through an editor or a photo compression app, or you can see whether when you send one by mail, you are given a reduction in size/compression option. (For example, if you "send to mail" from the Windows File explorer you are being given some choices; pick any other than "original" and mail it to yourself before posting here).
Look into the "How to use this forum" section for more suggestions. (If anyone has good suggestions for other platforms, including phones, I would love to hear them).
~ green ~ lake ~ ~