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[TowerTalk] Dissimilar Metals?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Dissimilar Metals?
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:35:57 -0500
At 10:23 AM 1/11/02 EST, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>    That's why Polyphaser makes a hose clamp with a little pad of SS for 
>clamping a copper ground wire to a galvanized zinc round tower leg using the 
>SS pad in-between the two dissimilar metals.

McMaster-Carr also sells nice .020 stainless shim stock, no minimum order.
Buy a sheet for $5 or so and you can make a LOT of auto parts store hose
clamps into the equivalent of the pricey Polyphaser part.


73, Pete N4ZR

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