[TowerTalk] Need sources of rope and fiberglass

[Perry - K4PWO]

For fiberglass tubing and rod, see...
http://www.mgs4u.com/index.html
Hopefully they can ship to Charly.

73 de Perry - K4PWO

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:39 AM
To: Charles Harpole; towertalk at contesting.com; Florida ContestGroup;
cubex at cubex.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Need sources of rope and fiberglass

Take a look at this

http://www.synthetictextilesinc.com/supportham.html



Mark N1UK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud at hotmail.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>; "Florida ContestGroup" <fcg at kkn.net>; 
<cubex at cubex.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 04 August, 2010 10:38 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Need sources of rope and fiberglass


>
> Hope someone can refer me to a source for
>
> ---very light weight, very strong (500 lbs. pull), non absorbent, sun 
> resistant line/string/rope to use to internally guy a two element quad.
>
> -- light weight 8 foot fiberglass rod or tube, at least 1 and half inch 
> diameter.
>
>
> Well, my quad broke today in a gale.  The wind estimater says speed was 50

> to 56 mph based on small tree blown over, twigs and limbs down, and so on.

> I am impressed that the grass in the lots beside and behind me ... grass 
> about 2 ft tall, was blown completely flat, so he wind at actual ground 
> level was bad, too.  Standard factory Cubex with factory stiffner... 2 el 
> full size 40m, 2el on 30, and 3 el on other two WARC bands.  Really worked

> nice!
>
> I made the mistake of not heading my quad West where the wind always comes

> from... I think because it hit it on an angle, one of the top two 
> spreaders broke at about the half way point and all the wires of the 
> driven element are drooping over the mess that is left.  The reflector, 
> lacking he added load of the driven coax attached, survived.  I think the 
> driven array also rotated on the boom and the whole thing could have been 
> pushed back on the mast, it appears.
>
> I had plans already of putting in 8ft extensions on the ends of the boom 
> and tying the whole thing into a fully guyed internally.  I do not know 
> how I can get another fiberglass spreader shipped here, it is very long, 
> and I have only one fiberglass extension rod to do the strengthening so 
> that is another part to find.
>
> If you have suggestions on a very light very strong, sun resistant, non 
> absorbing string, line, rope.... please let me know.  de HS0ZCW
>
> Charly
>
>
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