Stan,
I'm sure you'll have excellent results with molded fiberglas rod. He's an
excellent comparative analysis of the physical properties of commonly available
structural composite materials:
http://k-mac-plastics.net/data%20sheets/phenolics-technical-data.htm
Good luck!
73
Frank
W3LPL
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 9:43:34 -0500
>From: Stan Stockton <k5go@cox.net>
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Garolite
>To: donovanf@starpower.net
>Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
>
>Frank,
>
>I have a high quality, solid, molded fiberglass rod that I will use in the
>center to split the elements. One of the questions had to do with LE material
>which I had seen that you had used. According to the specs listed for it on
>McMaster Carr, the tensile strength is about 1/4 that of G10 or G11 which is
>even stronger than G10. Duffy said that he uses G10 instead of LE.
>
>The next question has to do with insulating all the elements. I could not
>find a previous posting from several years ago where I believe you stated some
>positives relating to interference issues, etc. from having insulated all the
>elements. If you could let me know what all those positives were I would
>appreciate it. Not sure whether you try to insulate the boom from the mast or
>not?
>
>Thanks...Stan
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