[TowerTalk] Interested in cleaning your SteppIR elements?

[Pat Barthelow]

Hello Steve, and Talkians:

Interesting concept.... but plausible, at least in April.   All the other 
months of the year, some years back,  Fermilab had a Ferret, named Felicia, 
race through the Cyclotron  precision piping there, pulling a cleaning plug, 
and did a bang up job cleaning the miles and miles of pipes there.   Read 
Felicia the Ferret's  story at:

http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html

Rumor has it that all they had to do at Fermilab, was feed Felicia the 
Ferret, a steady diet of African Pygmy Mice (MUS Minutoides)  to keep her 
happy.    (:>)

Best, 73, DX, de Pat AA6EG  aa6eg at hotmail.com

>--- UpTheTower at aol.com wrote:
Howdy, TowerTalkians --

     I got this off the SteppIR reflector. Apparently
  there is an ongoing discussion/research into intermittent element
function that  can be resolved by cleaning the beryllium tape. This guy 
offered a
truly unique  solution. Is it   for real? I'm not sure.

http://www.chazcone.com/w4gkf/steppir/elementcleaning.htm

Who said hams weren't resourceful?!?
Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC