[Towertalk] Rivets, Clamps, Screws etc

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Did he have different colors for the different band/elements??


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim White" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Greg Gobleman" <k9zm@frontiernet.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Rivets, Clamps, Screws etc


> another guy here in Floirda REALLY blew me away...paud him a visit and he
> was putting up a stack of 15 meter yagis...he welcomed me and told me it
was
> heat shrink day...
>
> He had obtained some heat shrink with goo on the inside and was putting a
> piece over all the tubing reductions and heating it...
>
> WOW
>
>
> K4OJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Gobleman" <k9zm@frontiernet.net>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 12:14 PM
> Subject: [Towertalk] Rivets, Clamps, Screws etc
>
>
> > While on this subject, does anyone else wrap the joints of their
antennas
> > with Scotch 33/88?  I cannot remember who taught me this, but I have
> always
> > wrapped the joint, clamps, rivets, screws, whatever in electrical tape.
> It
> > keeps the snags to a minimum and should prevent the rivets from coming
> out.
> > I don't know if it would stop the elements from rocking and working the
> > rivets loose but it did cure the oscillation of my 10m elements on my
> > Tango34.   I'd like to think that it helps to keep anti-oxidant from
being
> > displaced by wind driven rain, although it would not allow the joint to
> weep
> > moisture.  Any condensation would have to run to the end of an element
to
> > get out.
> >
> > 73
> > Greg K9ZM
> >
> >
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