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[TowerTalk] Dissimilar Metals?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Dissimilar Metals?
From: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:23:52 EST
In a message dated 1/10/02 10:22:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, n3rr@erols.com 
writes:

> Brass and copper is "OK", but I avoid it.  I usually use stainless steel as
>  the transition metal between two dissimilar metals.  That stainless steel 
is
>  usually a bolt/washer/nut combination.

    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.

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
Tower Tech 

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