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Re: [TowerTalk] F12 C19XR Rivets

To: towertalk@contesting.com, jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] F12 C19XR Rivets
From: <w3yy@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:12:22 -0500
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HI Jim -

What's the name of the glue you describe below?

73, Bob - W3YY

>  jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> On 3/12/16 9:56 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:53:02 -0600
> From: Kevin Stover <kevin.stover@mediacombb.net>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] F12 C19XR Rivets

> ##  On a side note,   I asked the local mobile aluminum welding guy here in 
> town
> about coming here to weld some thicker wall  boom material and other items 
> for me,
> like channel al  etc.   He told me that IF  you don’t require any kind of 
> electrical connection,
> a special kind of glue can be used.... that is one helluva lot strong than 
> any welding process.
> ‘Only god can get it apart’  he tells me.   They now glue  motor bike frames  
> with it..and also bicycle
> frames etc.   It works too,  but  no electrical connection, and it cant be 
> taken apart, has to
> be cut off.   Ironicly, its being used on exotic al car bodies.

A good 2 part Epoxy.
If you do a good job preparing the surfaces, the metal will fail before 
the epoxy.



(but I'm thinking about a 3Dprinter on the tower that melts the metal 
and casts it in place. )

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