[Amps] super glue?

[Bill Turner]

In my former life as an engineer in the avionics industry, we prohibited 
super glue (cyanoacrylate) from any long-time use. It becomes brittle 
after about a year or so and can not be relied on.

Q-dope is a better glue for your use.

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Bill, W6WRT

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Original Message:

John Irwin <crazytvjohn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> dudes
>
> I am in the process of developing a means of notching plastic rod for
> coil spacing retainers using my shopsmith, cuts a notch in 1/4"rod to
> half  thickness about 1/8 inch apart.  This will give with #10 wire
> about 10 turns per inch.  My question is about the glue or coil dope
> to seal the wire to the rods.  arrl handbook says something about
> duco cement,I am not familar with duco cement .  At work I use velco
> cement which is quite like old time airplane model glue.  you can get
> this at fabric stores.  But what do YOU use for this job. glue should
> not soften or melt with rf energy and I have no frendly amplifier
> laying around to roast some samples in to find out!  The glue also
> should not be conductive for this application.  hot glue is
> conductive.
>
>
> any help will be appriciated
>
> john kb9tc 



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