I am missing something here as US Tower advises against lubricating cables.
What are you gaining by lubricating cable? I my opinion if a un-lubricated
galvanized cable shows signs of rust, it is time to replace it.
73's
NJ0F
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On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Bryan Swadener <bswadener@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Grant,
>
> I'll soon be lubing my TX472 cables with Mac's Chain & Cable Lube (NAPA
> #1370). As near as I can tell by comparing MSDSs, it's the same as Prelube 6.
>
> vy 73,
> Bryan WA7PRC
>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:12:40 -0700
>> From: Grant Saviers
>>
>> I've started lubricating the cables on my HDX589 with
>> PreLube 6. For the
>> main spool cable, I applied the lube when lowering the tower
>> by spraying
>> into a slotted plastic funnel on the cable. That
>> technique worked very
>> well. But now looking at the higher section
>> cables between the
>> sections, I'm wondering if there is a neat technique for
>> application of
>> the lube to them? Get to the top with the
>> tower down, spray, and hope
>> the lube runs all the way down the cable??
>>
>> (not a revisit of lube/not lube cables debate
>> please). btw Prelube 6
>> smells a lot like LPS2 or LPS3 so I might guess some of the
>> ingredients
>> are the same.
>>
>> Grant KZ1W
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