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1. [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:38:42 -0700; How good is dacron rope, as an insulator for HV? I am planning on using .3125 dacron rope as an overhead truss for the shortened 80m rotary dipole. One length going out each side of the mast. They wi; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00473.html (7,760 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: George Dubovsky <n4ua.va@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:57:55 -0400; New, clean, probably just fine. I have used it as the insulator at the ends of dipoles at full power with no problems. The problem with all rough-surface insulators like braided and twisted ropes is; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00475.html (9,717 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: Clay Autery <cautery@montac.com>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:05:26 -0500; For your particular purpose, you might consider a polyester covered kevlar material of the minimum diameter required to carry your calculated load plus a little engineering buffer. Some folks use thi; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00476.html (9,022 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: Clay Autery <cautery@montac.com>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:06:34 -0500; This is the stuff I am recommending as well... ______________________ Clay Autery, KY5G (318) 518-1389 _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00477.html (7,625 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:52:50 -0700; It will melt. Ask me how I know. :) 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http:/; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00484.html (7,561 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:57:06 -0700; A couple of problems with dacron (which may really be polyester) 1. stuff grows on it, my Synthetic Textile lines slowly turn moldy, faster than in CA, slower than some of the knockoffs. Probably a b; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00485.html (10,720 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Dacron rope as an insulator (score: 1): Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:27:09 -0400; Don't know about your rain water, but ours is no longer clean even though I'm in the country and a long way down wind from industry. I'd put an insulator where it connects to the element on each end.; /archives//html/Towertalk/2017-03/msg00495.html (9,741 bytes)

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