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Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to Rohn tower

To: Scott MacKenzie <kb0fhp@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to Rohn tower
From: "R. Kevin Stover" <rkstover@mchsi.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:35:12 -0500
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And this is why you don't attach copper anything, strap or wire, 
directly to a galvanized (zinc) surface.
Clamp some stainless sheet to the leg then clamp your strap or wire to 
to the stainless.

Scott MacKenzie wrote:
> One good reason is that copper is anodic to zinc and steel.  You will get
> preferential corrosion of the zinc and eventually of the steel - eventually
> corroding the steel until it is unable to support its weight.  At least that
> is what I was thinking....
>
> Scott, AKA KB0FHP 
>   
-- 
R. Kevin Stover
ACØH

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