[TowerTalk] Garolite

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Stan,

I'm sure you'll have excellent results with molded fiberglas rod.  He's an excellent comparative analysis of the physical properties of commonly available structural composite materials:

http://k-mac-plastics.net/data%20sheets/phenolics-technical-data.htm

Good luck!

73
Frank
W3LPL

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 9:43:34 -0500
>From: Stan Stockton <k5go at cox.net>  
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Garolite  
>To: donovanf at starpower.net
>Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
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>Frank,
>
>I have a high quality, solid, molded fiberglass rod that I will use in the center to split the elements.  One of the questions had to do with LE material which I had seen that you had used. According to the specs listed for it on McMaster Carr, the tensile strength is about 1/4 that of G10 or G11 which is even stronger than G10.  Duffy said that he uses G10 instead of LE.  
>
>The next question has to do with insulating all the elements.  I could not find a previous posting from several years ago where I believe you stated some positives relating to interference issues, etc. from having insulated all the elements.  If you could let me know what all those positives were I would appreciate it.  Not sure whether you try to insulate the boom from the mast or not?  
>
>Thanks...Stan
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