[TowerTalk] Hot melt..

[Bill Winkis]

It works...just took down a set of antennas that were up for 9 
years...and the match, etc was sealed and waterproof''d with hot melt 
and after all these years it was still good....
Took a low temp torch and dripped it all off, and the joints were as 
shinny as when I put it up.....the braid on the co-ax was still 
shinny. Trick is you've got to get it hot so the melt will "Flow" and 
seep into the braid etc.....

Am now building a 4element quad and will use hot melt to seal the 
wire-co-ax joints....and oh yes they make a gas fired cordless hot 
melt gun for tower work....will give you about 2 hours of work time.

Now I wonder if there are any grades to the hot melt it self, like 
good-better-best.....or different viscosity levels when melted...???

Bill
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