At 01:06 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Pat Barthelow wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>One thing you might want to be careful of when mounting Anode coolers, is
>to lift the metal heat dissapator slightly off the glass of the tube,
>before cinching down the set-screw, to prevent dissimilar expansion rates
>of the glass, and metal from creating stress on the glass seal.....
>
>73, DX, de
>Pat, AA6EG/N6IJ;
Certainly a reasonable precaution with tubes like 813's. Not a problem with
4-400 class tubes. Take a close look at one, you'll see why.
73,
Larry - W7IUV
w7iuv@arrl.net
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