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Subject: [TowerTalk] Protecting connectors
From: JimMiller@STL-OnLine.Net (Jimmy Miller)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:10:47 -0500
Several years ago a friend of mine needed to make a long run of electrical
power to a barn/shop and had to make a splice about halfway out.  He was
trying to figure how to portect it without buying heavy expensive waterproof
box that he would need to bury.  What he did was to slide a piece of PVC
tubing over one end of the cable and then made his connections.  He then
slid the PVC over the splice area and filled it with several tubes of
silicone to both ends and buried it.  It is still working but I can't vouch
for what it looks like at this time.  What would be wrong with doing
something like this for coax connectors possibly even without the PVC?
Seems to me like the silicone would seal it pretty good.

73, Jim
KG0KP



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