You can estimate the length within several feet by measuring the diameter of a typical loop (they must all be approximately the same size loops within a couple inches, although you can estimate a cor
Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop There used to be "Tailpipe Expanders" available from certain auto tool companies; I still have one. It won't, however, "shrink" pipe. I rember seeing
Your problem was likely that your pipe was ALREADY hardened, if it was 6061-T6 or 6063. You can easily expand steel tubing like that if you heat it red-hot; but I doubt you can do that with aluminum,
Some only go down to 6.5 feet, requiring doing that last foot-plus by hand. Harbor Fright and Honda used to have a "towable mini-excavator" (it was listed in HF's web page catalog as such until recen
On 4/5/2025 3:32 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 4/5/2025 2:05 PM, Richard Solomon wrote: The more you complicate the plumbing, the easier it is to clog the toilet. Exactly right, especially about the big St
Somebody with more cents than sense. I spied a keyer paddle on the op table and no microphones... at least, none of those real fancy broadcast-types. But the FCC record doesn't seem to indicate that
It did not; contesting.com reflectors don't allow attachments; you must use groups.io reflectors instead. Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ _________________________________
This document needs to be archived in a files section somewhere. having to do with towers/antennas. TNX, Jim; very handy! Steve, K0XP On 4/26/2025 3:26 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 4/26/2025 3:02 PM, John
Please post such responses here, as there would be many others greatly interested. 73, Steve K0XP On 5/20/2025 8:02 AM, Dennis W0JX via TowerTalk wrote: After looking at the Mastrant Premium syntheti
But if you're satisfying, say, a HOA that is demanding "full NEC compliance"........... Or worse yet, an insurance company with which he's trying to renew his homeowner's policy. Steve, K0XP ________
An equally-important question is, What happened to K7NV's stock of spare parts?? Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk
The sheet overlap is held together with Dow Corning 736 heat-resistant RTV sealant. Paul, W9AC Believe it or not, most of the amplifier manufacturers use ordinary metallic STAPLES to hold the sheet i
On 6/25/2025 10:40 AM, John Geiger via TowerTalk wrote: The balun I was using on my TGM Communications MQ-26 miniquad died a couple of months ago. I came up with the idea today of making one myself s
On 7/3/2025 7:37 AM, cqtestk4xs-- via TowerTalk wrote: I'm no longer in a QTH where I can put up a tower, or for that matter, any antenna. So I am planning on doing some operating when we camp out.
I suspect he buys the wire on large spools, has some sort of winding machine to form the raw coils, then melts the plastic insulators onto the wire. And now... I'm wondering whether it's possible tha
I am continually amazed with the placement of air-wound pi net inductors just an inch or less from the side walls of final amp compartments, and in other examples such as antenna tuners. Even Ameritr
That just means that just like the plumber who quotes you $20,000 just to swap out a drain trap under your kitchen sink, they do not want our bizness. Steve, K0XP ____________________________________
What is the collective Wisdom concerning the use of an aluminum-to-aluminum lubricant (such as Penetrox) between boom pieces, one of which is swaged? I am reassembling several older monobanders but u
Home Depot (and ACE hardware stores) doesn't have Penetrox, but they do have Noalox. The description of Noalox seems even better suited to aluminum - to - aluminum electrical connections than Penetro
On 8/17/2025 11:18 AM, Jim Lux wrote: As for aluminum tubing to aluminum tubing - the question would be whether you make electrical contact (which is needed in an antenna). But conceivably, you only