[TowerTalk] painting steppIR elements

[Bud Semon]

As one of the "erection" crew, I can explain the theory anyway.  We painted 
all the exposed surfaces, including the fiberglass elements and the metal 
(boom, clamps, etc).  Howard lives just a few miles from the ocean and the 
idea was to reduce the rate of corrosion on everything.  Only time will 
tell if it made any difference.

A side note - Howard lives on the side of hill (with ocean views) in a 
pretty ritzy area, even for La Jolla.  As I was dressing the coax across 
the roof, his neighbor above him (whose ocean view now went directly 
through the yagi) was yelling at me "Is that thing legal?" and "He's going 
to get a call from my attorney".  They called HRO and asked for the local 
expert on towers, permitting, etc.  Tom, KM6K, at HRO referred them to 
Howard  :)   Putting that thing up in the air may have been the easiest of 
the battles....

73,  Bud  N7CW

-----Original Message-----
From:	Mike Rhodes [SMTP:weightdn at adelphia.net]
Sent:	Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:51 PM
To:	towertalk at contesting.com
Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] painting steppIR elements

My impression was, he painted all exposed METAL parts...

Mike / W8DN

jimjarvis at comcast.net wrote:
> Steve's recent post of the pics from the MonstIR install
> were quite interesting.
>
> I wonder what effect painting the fiberglass tubes will have?
>
> N2EA
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