Jim, It was aluminum fencing wire. It was around 14 guage but other than
that I don't know much about the makeup of the wire. On the subject of
aluminum oxidizing , we had a Gap Challenger that was put up new in Aruba
using the supplied hardware. In 2 years the aluminum started turning to
white oxide powder where the screws go through the tubing. The holes for
the screws go so big and the area around them got so brittle it had to be
taken down 73 Mike K4PI
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
To: "MIKE GREENWAY" <K4PI@peoplepc.com>; <TOWERTALK@CONTESTING.COM>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RADIAL WIRE
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MIKE GREENWAY" <K4PI@peoplepc.com>
> To: <TOWERTALK@CONTESTING.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:59 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] RADIAL WIRE
>
>
> > Thanks for all the input. One comment on the aluminum wire. I put out
> > aluminum that was 14 gauge and in a year or two it had started turning
> > brittle and just crumbled up. A lot of work laying all of that out was
a
> > waste of time. 73 Mike K4PI
>
> That's kind of interesting... what kind of wire (i.e. what was the alloy,
if
> you know) and does your soil have any peculiar properties that might make
it
> corrode quickly?
>
> There are some aluminum alloys that seem to fall apart instantly, and
others
> that don't.
>
>
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