Topband: Spacers for ladder line

[Hardy Landskov]

Hi Everyone,
There was a guy at Dayton selling spacers for open wire line. He has a 
website www.73cnc.com  that with his spacers and Home Depot #14 THNN I think 
it was wire you could roll your own 600 ohm openwire line.
73 N7RT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Moizeau" <w2sh at msn.com>
To: "Topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:16 PM
Subject: Topband: Spacers for ladder line


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> I would strongly suggest that you look at the electrical
> department at Home Depot.  Among their wire accessory supplies, you will
> find some gray plastic staples.  Each one carries two 1 1/2-inch nails
> that that you pound in to secure the staple to the outside of your house 
> to
> hold in place that big wide electric service cable that brings 220 Volt at 
> 250
> or so Amps. electrical service to houses.  The manufacturer is Gardner
> Denver Co., and sometime I'll peek at their website.
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> I recall that you could buy a bag of around fifty of these
> plastic staples at Home Depot for not too bad a price.  Greater quantities
> are probably available elsewhere at a much better price.  What you can do
> with one of these babies is to set aside the two nails and you will then 
> have
> yourself a nice rugged, UV-resistant spacer (remember, they're used on the
> outside of a house) that gives 1 1/4- inch conductor spacing.
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> You will need to slightly enlarge the two holes in order to
> pass a bare, or enamel-insulated, #12 or #14-gauge solid copper wire.  In
> order to achieve a tight grip on your wire you can enlarge the hole (which
> looks to be about 0.088" diameter) just enough to pass the wire, and you
> should then be able to avoid having to use hot glue to hold things in 
> place.
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> It has taken some effort for me to withhold my outrageous
> sermon on why almost all of that commercial black stuff is lousy for
> feedlines.  Besides, my asbestos BVDs
> are away at the cleaners
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> 72,
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>
> Charles, W2SH
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