[CQ-Contest] Sourcing ferrites and flooded heat shrink

[Richard Thorne]

Pete,

Check out fastenal . com  Do a search on adhesive-lined heat shrink. 
They have a local outlet here and they had various sizes on a rack at 
the store.  It's a little pricey but it works very well.  Heat it up, it 
shrinks and towards the end of the process a little of the glue ridge 
sets up nice around the joint assuring you that you have a nice seal.

I bought a few packages of the heavy wall .80" diameter x 6" long 
adhesive lined heat shrink to fit over N connectors that will be 
installed on LMR-600.

Ordering on line is fast.  I ordered a bunch of galvanized hardware for 
a tower project, the web site is very easy to use,  especially for order 
bolts,nuts and washers.

Rich - N5ZC

On 7/21/2015 10:24 PM, Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I’ve got a few projects on the go during the summer season and I’m trying to
> find sources for the right items that would be useful to hams. First off,
> I’m trying to put out some rather serious RFI fires with ferrites. I’ve used
> up all the ones I bought 10+ years ago and I didn’t keep the packaging to
> record the part numbers. I’m after Mix 31 torroids (Fair-Rite) with
> diameters from 1” to about 2 or 2.5” and snap-ons in various sizes from 1/8”
> to ½” (and are any specifically sized for .405” coax?). Maybe I’m going
> senile in my old age, but I just can’t find what I’m looking for in their
> online catalogue.
>
> Second thing I’m after is some flooded heat shrink for weatherproofing coax
> fittings. At least I think that’s the correct terminology. I recall putting
> on some Andrews N-connectors back in the day and the small section of heat
> shrink provided was really nice stuff.
>
>   
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Peter, W2IRT
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