[TowerTalk] B&W Center Insulator for dipoles

[Clint Talmadge]

You are  missing a rubber "doughnut" that slips over the RG8 or 213 and squeezes it tightly enough to support the weight of the cable. I still have a brand new in the box B&W dipole center kit as you described it.

Clint - W5CPT

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Al_N6TA at comcast.net 
  To: TowerTalk 
  Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 7:54 PM
  Subject: [TowerTalk] B&W Center Insulator for dipoles


  One of my junk drawers just coughed up a B&W cast aluminum center insulator for dipoles.  It is a two piece clamshell design that is really heavy duty with eye bolts, ceramic insulators, gaskets and seems to want to clamp to the coax feedline.
  My question to the old timers out there is why is hole for the coax 9/16 " diameter, much too large for RG-8 type coax?  Am I missing a part that is a gasket of some kind that would make the RG-8 fit?  

  If this B&W unit is used correctly, I seems like it could take a LOT of tension and weight of coax hanging a long way down.  I plan to raise my 80 M dipole to heights it has never seen before!

  Tnx
  Al
  N6TA
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