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1. [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: K4SAV <RadioIR@charter.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:12:25 -0600; I would like some suggestions for a material to use for plugging the ends of booms and antenna elements to keep the critters out. I don't like using caps because those just trap the water inside. I h; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00239.html (7,379 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: BRENT BAUM <brentbaum5323@msn.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:37:29 -0700; As a variation on the pot scrubber theme, why not try some wadded up window screen material? It seems to be reasonably UV resistant and sufficiently porous for your needs. Brent, K7MEI> Date: Tue, 9; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00240.html (8,258 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "David Jordan" <wa3gin@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:41:20 -0500; Use the caps and drill a weep hole for the water.... -- As a variation on the pot scrubber theme _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00241.html (7,475 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: Richards <jruing@ameritech.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:43:23 -0500; Talk to a guy who does pest control. They use some fibrous plastic stuff that is kinda like the plastic pot scrubber stuff that they stuff into nooks and crannies and holes in your house siding and s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00243.html (7,915 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "Dan Hearn" <n5ar@air-pipe.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:57:16 -0800; Jerry, I use a piece of galvanized hardware cloth ( looks like screen wire with holes 1/8 or larger) I cut it into a circle a bit larger than the desired diameter and then cut radial slots around the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00244.html (9,220 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: Bill Winkis <kc4pe@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:03:55 -0500; Get end caps to fit the boom .... cut the center out of the caps leaving 3/8" lip all the way around...... snip 1/4 inch block out of the lip for drainage (be sure and mount this snip bottom center).; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00245.html (8,663 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "Julio Peralta" <jperalta4@verizon.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:31:15 -0500; How about Stainless steel wool? I think you can find it in grocery stores if not there maybe commercial cleaning supplies or hardware stores. Julio, W4HY I would like some suggestions for a material; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00253.html (9,047 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: K4SAV <RadioIR@charter.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:15:47 -0600; I got several good suggestions, some bad ones, and some unknown ones. Here is a summary: - My comments are in parenthesis. Another note: Birds like to sit on the end of my boom and peck at these plug; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00255.html (10,041 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "Bill Aycock" <baycock@hughes.net>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:32:19 -0600; Jerry- re the "copper" scrubbers- there are actually some copper ones available. When I look for the real thing, I take a small magnet with me to test with. I get some stares, but if they object, I m; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00256.html (9,265 bytes)
10. [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "Wilson A. Caselli" <wcaselli@webkorner.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:48:20 -0500; Critters also hate Fiberglass batting chunks. I would like some suggestions for a material to use for plugging the ends of booms and antenna elements to keep the critters out. I don't like using caps; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00257.html (9,138 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:02:30 -0500; My antennas have only been up for 11 years, but booms and element ends suffer only from turkey buzzard poop. The only the only places I have a critter problem are with wasps in the top of my mast, an; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00258.html (11,169 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: Richards <jruing@ameritech.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:15:24 -0500; Could you just crimp them closed like the way TV antennas are made? == Anon.... K8JHR == == _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk m; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00260.html (8,273 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "N2TK" <tony.kaz@verizon.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:15:23 -0500; If anyone finds stainless steel wool, can you tell me what kind of store you found it? I have tried Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Walmart and a few others. But no luck. Tnx N2TK, Tony How about St; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00261.html (10,231 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: "Bob Maser" <bmaser@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:53:51 -0800; Try bronze wool, available in marine supply stores. Works great, never rusts. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list To; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00263.html (11,492 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] No end caps (score: 1): Author: John Kuklewicz N7ZN <kukl@wildblue.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:10:13 -0800; Stainless Steel Wool, for example: <http://www.amazon.com/Chore-Boy-Stainless-Steel-Scrubbers/dp/B000V74DJG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1228867592&sr=8-4> Chore Boy Stainless Steel Scru; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-12/msg00269.html (11,797 bytes)

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