[TowerTalk] Cutting 3/16" EHS...

[K8RI on TowerTalk]

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> I looked for and found the bolt cutters.  The 24" HK Porter cutter was $50
> and the 18" was $20.  I had a 3" piece of EHS with me and the salesman let
> me try cutting the piece with the 18" cutter.  One try and the EHS was 2
> pieces of EHS.  Fortunately, I was close to and faced a corner when I cut

Reallllyyyy go...don't they? When cutting the end off you really only have 
the short piece to worry about unless they are both short.  In the cut-off, 
or chop saw the cable is clamped in place.

> the EHS because both pieces shot out and into the display cases and 
> bounced
> to the floor--out in the open, they could have gone some distance and
> possibly hit someone--lesson learned there...  Neither of us was expecting
> that.
>

The guy selling bolt cutters should have known, but that happens in the big 
box stores at times. Course it happens with new people in the hardware 
stores too.

> Anyway, I bought the 18" cutters and 30 minutes after getting home,
> measuring out and marking the cut points I wanted to make, the job was 
> done.

I'm getting older. I prefer the 24" <:-))

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> $20 well spent.

Ain't it nice with the proper tools?  <:-))

I'm still waiting for my loos gage to tighten the guys.   I'm going to be 
lower ihtm and that is going to require cutting EHS "tails" to go between 
the turnbuckles and the Phyllistran.
Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

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> 73,
> Dale, kg5u
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