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Subject: [TowerTalk] Dissimilar Metals?
From: aa4lr@arrl.net (Bill Coleman)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:18:50 -0500
On 1/11/02 10:23 AM, K7LXC@aol.com at 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.

Me? I'm a cheapstake. I got three 1" squares of scrap .016 stainless, and 
some ordinary stainless hose clamps. I slip the square of stainless under 
the copper ground wire and tighten away.

A lot cheaper than the polyphaser product.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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