[TowerTalk] Using Clothes Hangers for coax and radial pins/staples

[Jim Miller]

What's wrong with using the old single piece wooden clothespins?  I laughed
at the suggestion until I wasn't finding anything else that seemed to work
well.  I found them at the cloth section in Target I think.  They use them
for hobby stuff like making dolls, etc.  She thought I was making a whole
lot of dolls.  They worked very well and no rust.  IF the mower did hit
them, they just got thrown out or cut off.  Never did really inspect for
what happened.  They won't work with coax because of the size but they are
THE answer for radials.

73, de Jim KG0KP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal Kennedy" <halken at comcast.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Using Clothes Hangers for coax and radial pins/staples


> I have often wondered about the electrical effects of steel sod staples.
> I pulled up a bunch of radials out at K4JA last December - they had been
> in the ground for two years and the sod staples came out of the ground
> nice and rusty, as you would expect.  Every junction between the radials
> and the sod staples is a crummy, intermittent rectifier.  Meanwhile,
> this never seems to hurt anything.  Perhaps the currents are so small -
> due to the small size of the sod staples (?) that it doesn't matter?
> Still gives me the creeps to fill the yard with rectifier junctions.
>
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> Hal
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> N4GG
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