[TowerTalk] Homebrewing Verticals

[dan hearn]

Bruce: You did not mention any sizes you need but you will find
fiberglass rod up to 1 1/2 diameter and tubing up to 2 inch at
www.mgs4u.com . I have never dealt with these people but the prices seem
reasonable to me. Remember, you can make shims for tubing by cutting off
a short piece, cutting a wide slot along the length of it and squeezing
it down in diameter. Slip it inside the original tube and there you
are.  73, Dan, N5AR

Bruce Sawyer wrote:
> 
> I'm curious if anybody on the reflector has found any readily-available and
> easy-to-use material to function as the insulator between the base section
> of a vertical and the active element for it.  I've looked at all kinds of
> combinations of PVC water pipe, ABS pipe, PVC electrical conduit, etc., but
> the standard sizes for aluminum tubing and for pipe materials simply don't
> correspond the way we would require in order to use the pipe as an
> insulator.  What we need, of course, is some kind of insulating pipe and two
> sizes of aluminum tubing such that the insulating pipe will just barely fit
> inside the larger piece of aluminum tubing and such that the smaller piece
> of aluminum tubing will just barely fit inside the insulating pipe.
> However, I'm sure there could be something in all the bins at my local Home
> Depot that I've missed (e.g. a PVC coupling fitting).  Has anybody here
> found a good solution for this?
> 
> Bruce, N6NT
> 
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