[TowerTalk] soldering instead of clamping

[Bill Heinzinger]

Boy I unintentionally mislead you all.
My mistake. I should have made it clear that I was interested in soldering
the inshack equipment  grounds which use copper strap to a ground rod right
outside the wall.
A distance of 5 feet at most.
My tower has heavy clamped cable to multiple ground rods.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad" <brehm@texas.net>
To: "Bill Heinzinger" <w9ol@dataflo.net>; "Tower Talk (mail list)"
<towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] soldering instead of clamping


> "How about just soldering the ground straps to the copper covered
> ground rods.  Will that work or will it degrade?"
>
> I've avoided soldering any of the ground system connections on my
> tower.  If there were a strike, I think the I2R heating would
> melt & blow the solder away.
>
> Eventually, I settled on hard-drawn copper pipe and brazing.  I
> did the brazing with a $30 oxy-map gas kit from Burnzomatic.
>
> As for the stainless-copper combination: It's probably okay.
> There are charts showing the galvanic characteristics of metals.
> There are many kinds of stainless, but generally, they're
> compatible with copper.
>
> Brad, KV5V
>
>
>


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