I did the same thing last year. I found that the high temp disc brake grease was good. Pictures here: http://w4zt.com/rotor/connect.html 73, Tony W4ZT At 09:00 AM 9/30/2003, Mike Gilmer - N2MG wrote:
If you have but one chance to bury in the ditches and you're pressed for time, go get some copper plumbing pipe. Brazing the joints would be best. 73, Tony At 09:57 AM 10/21/2003, Eric Scace K3NA wro
Not if it is done properly... when properly brazed, it's a sweat joint with a much higher strength material. Now if it's just glopped on like so many do their solder joints, it's not worth the time d
Brazing is a different process than the soldering done in domestic water systems (http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3495/Temp/basic.htm). If you look at MIL-HDBK-419A, Grounding, Bonding, an
At 12:38 PM 10/21/2003, Jim Lux wrote: <snip> By the way, I'm not sure what you really want here is a brazed copper/copper joint. Brazing is usually used to refer to a joint using brass or copper to
At 11:08 AM 11/25/2003, Jerry Keller wrote: Many of the posts for this subject indicate there's a lot of "solo" tower climbing going on. I don't climb, but if I did I would never do so without a help
At 01:41 PM 11/26/2003, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote: <snip> Well, my wife is a little concerned that I work alone. <snip> Mark, N5OT Easy. Get her to be your second person. I climb alone,
At 04:44 PM 11/28/2003, Jim Reid wrote: <snip>However, I don't use it for twin lead fed balanced antennas, for that I use my modified Johnson kW Matchbox.<snip> Care to share the mods? Tony W4ZT ____
There are, as stated here, many different chargers manufactured for electric fence use. Most of the "Fi-do" and continuous current types aren't the fence charger of choice for "large" animals and lon
for everyone that is still interested in the W6AM book, you can get yours now. 73, Tony W4ZT From: "Don Werner" <don.werner@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W6AM book availability Date: Mon, 1 M
Over 20 years ago I built my own static discharge brush after my 130 ft tower was consistently being hit by lightning several times every year. It is a simple device with sharp wires sticking out in
Howard, Have you considered rotating the boom of the lower antenna so you have the elements vertical, giving you a clear 180 degrees to lift the second antenna straight up the side? 73, Tony W4ZT At
I regret the passing of W4AN... he'll be missed I regret that some have used it for their political views :( Tony W4ZT _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com f
We have had discussions in the past about the data sheets for the 25G, 45G and 55G no longer being found. They are available right now at this link: <http://www.rohnnet.net/rohnnet2004/html2004/> Fro
I agree with Roger. Brazed joints in copper are actually called braze welding because the heat required to flow the rod (typically a copper zinc alloy looking like brass but a different mix with a me
With all the discussion about the harnesses that hang you from your back it is a good idea for all of us to be aware of suspension trauma death. See the link below. You don't want to slip, fall and h
The manual method equivalent to the Cadwelds or other name brand exothermic "one shot" welds is brazing or braze welding. You can braze with Oxy-Acetylene and Mapp. The problem with the manual method
At 01:04 PM 7/7/2004, Melvin Brafford wrote: On May 21 a storm took down my 100' Rohn 25G. <snip> The swaged ends are gone, and all I have left is the 3 legs which appear to be ok, and the 2 remainin