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[TowerTalk] Aluminum Hardline w/o jacket

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Aluminum Hardline w/o jacket
From: raylarue@gte.net (Ray LaRue)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 16:54:44 -0700
> > > >
> > > >I am intending to use some AL 1/2 inch hardline.  The problem is that it
> > > >doesn't have a jacket.  Just bare Al.  I suspect that it would be bad
> > > >form to thread this up the tower against the galvanized steel.  What
> > > >solutions have any of you found to work around this problem.
> > > >
> > > >Jay, WX0B
> > >

Jay,
I wouldn't worry about the aluminum sheath alongside the galvanized 
tower.  The unjacketed line is properly installed in CATV systems, all 
over the country, on galvanized strand.  Jacket is only required in acid 
or salt invironments.  
73, 
Ray, W4BYG

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