[TowerTalk] Frozen aluminum

[Tom Osborne]

> 
> On 6/13/00 4:10 PM, Jerry Heron at jerry@rchco.com wrote:
> 
>
>I've had a ten year old 204BA in storage outside for about 15 >years...The elements are "frozen" together at the telescoping >connections.

One trick I learned from Nose, KH6IJ was to take a screwdriver
and clamp it to the end of the element with with vice-grips with
the handle pointed back towards the boom.  Heat the elements and
hit the screwdriver with a hammer, driving the element out. 
Works for me!  73
Tom W7WHY

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