Sorry spellcheck drives me nuts in this phone. The source I was referred to
was. DXE.
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> On Dec 25, 2021, at 08:27, Bob Matthews <kt3rr@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Supplies of 3 inch aircraft tubing seem to be in very limited supply if not
> unattainable at all at the time.
>
> The common wall thickness you need is a. ,058 wall thickness this will
> normally allow tubing diameters of lesser values of 1/8 inch to slide inside
> the larger. IE 3 inch .058 connected vis 2.875. X .058 wall thickness.
>
> Or 2.875x .058 connected with 2.750 x .058 inches. You can increment these
> sizes down to 1/2 inch tubing.
>
> Normally DCE has a good supply however these days getting stock on shelves is
> a bit of a challenge. If I had a piece of 3 inch x .059 wall I would send it
> to you. But it seems even my supply of scraps are limited now.
>
> Bob KT3RR
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 25, 2021, at 06:59, Brad Anbro <n9en@live.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all and Merry Christmas!
>>
>> I am looking for a short piece of aluminum tubing with which to repair the
>> boom on a home-made copy of a KLM yagi antenna.
>>
>> I need a 39" long piece of 3" outside diameter tubing with a 0.055" wall
>> thickness. I cannot seem to find this size listed in any of the steel &
>> aluminum catalogs, so I am thinking that this is a non-standard size and
>> that KLM had it manufactured for them, as Telrex used to have done.
>>
>> I am hoping that someone has an old piece of KLM boom material and that they
>> can fix me up with a piece of this tubing. Thanks for any help with this!
>>
>> 73 de Brad, N9EN
>> Bluff City, TN
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