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Re: [TowerTalk] 80m vertical ideas / questions

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80m vertical ideas / questions
From: "Lux, Jim" <jim@luxfamily.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:48:19 -0800
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On 12/31/21 11:24 AM, Bill Coleman wrote:
Perhaps UHDPE plastic cylinders would do as well as fiberglass?

On Dec 31, 2021, at 6:52 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com> wrote:

If your vertical is
out in the open on flat land and you have a wind storm, it will
destroy plastic leg insulators and the ceramic ones hams find aren't
made for this.  Not sure about the fiberglass cylinders that fit
inside the legs.   Maybe they are more robust.


Both are available from McMaster-Carr.  Off hand, I'd think structural fiberglass would be a better choice.

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