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[Towertalk] tower joint Conductivity ???

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Subject: [Towertalk] tower joint Conductivity ???
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:21:27 -0500
At 10:45 AM 11/19/02 -0500, k7lxc wrote:
> >  Should I use conductive grease?
>
>     I would. But hard to predict the conductivity of the whole tower.


I may be living in a fool's paradise, but I figured that with 2 bolts per 
leg per joint, plus the zinc-on-zinc contact of the legs on top of one 
another, pressed together by the weight of the tower and guy forces, the 
conductivity between sections ought to be pretty decent.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower





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