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Re: [TowerTalk] stainless bolts freezing up

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] stainless bolts freezing up
From: Terry Sharar <tsharar@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:32:23 -0500
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All,

Somewhere years ago, probably on this reflector, I picked up the tip of using a nickel anti-sieze compound on all stainless steel nuts and/or bolts. This stuff can be bought from McMaster-Carr (www.mcmaster.com) for $11.50 for a 4 oz. brush top can. Order number: 1028K63.

Apparently it's also used on stainless steel on boats for the same reason.

73 de Terry Sharar WB3DSB

Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 2/1/05 9:48:39 PM Greenwich Standard Time, w8ji@contesting.com writes:
Most rotor cases are weak, soft, cast materials. I can't
imagine a quality stainless bolt galling or breaking before
the rotor housing fails.
It happened to several of mine....Hy-Gain bolts froze right up. I have never had it happen to any of them after applying NoAlox.


The HD 73 stainless bolts have a tendancy to do the same thing. Not the ones on the bottom, but the ones which hold the two sleeves which go around the mast. I have used NoAlox on those and the problem has never repeated.

Bill K4XS
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