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Re: [TowerTalk] Broken Johnny-ball insulators

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Broken Johnny-ball insulators
From: Dave Hachadorian <k6ll@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:09:08 +0000
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:36:36 -0400 Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
writes:
> At 10:31 AM 10/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Pete, you know Johnny-Balls have an up side and a down side, don't 
> you?
> >
> >If you don't, I bet this could be at the bottom of it.  They are 
> designed to
> >sweat moisture out the bottom.  If you put the bottom up because 
> you didn't
> >realize it was the bottom, then it's been retaining moisture.  I 
> think a
> >freeze could crack and break ceramic if it had water soaked into 
> it.
> >
> 
> I hadn't known that, but W0UN brought it up this morning. 

I didn't know that either. I went out to inspect mine
and found one upside down.

I told my wife that one of my Johnny-Balls was upside down,
and she said "That explains everything!"

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ

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