[TowerTalk] Fwd: Fiberglass Supplier

[Roger (K8RI)]

Bill Aycock wrote:
> Hans--
> This Bamboo is not a variety native to the US,it is Asian, and mine is up to 
> 5" dia and 30 to 50 ft. It is called "Timber" Bamboo, and is used in 
> structures.
>   
If it's what I think it is, it makes a whale of a nice floor too.

Roger (K8RI)
> Bill--W4BSG
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <HansLG at aol.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Fiberglass Supplier
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>   
>> I believe you have bamboo growing in a good part of Alabama. My son  was
>> living in Tuscaloosa for some time and told me you easily could find 15 '
>> bamboo sticks around, free to harvest.
>>
>> You do have to treat them, by heating them to get them in a shape you like
>> them. Apparently, when you heat them up, some of the resin in the "meat"
>> will  come out and coat the surface. If you don't do that, the bamboo 
>> stick
>> may crack  along the length and become relative useless for our purposes.
>>
>> Hans - N2JFS
>>
>> Gene and Daniel--
>> Too bad Plano is so far from NE Alabama-- I have a  moderate (several
>> hundred
>> canes) grove of Timber Bamboo that has to be  thinned every spring.
>> Bill--W4BSG
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene Smar" <ersmar at verizon.net>
>> To: "Tower and HF antenna  construction topics." 
>> <towertalk at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday,  January 28, 2010 7:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fiberglass  Supplier
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Daniel:
>>>
>>>     I'm afraid  I'm going to be contrary to your <no wood> requirement
>>>       
>> with
>>     
>>> my  suggestion.  When I was first licensed in the 60s, many QST and Pop
>>>  Electronic articles on construcing quads suggested using bamboo poles as
>>>  spreaders.  At that time they were obtainable from carpet stores; the
>>> carpet
>>> material was often shipped wound around such poles and  the poles were
>>>       
>> then
>>     
>>> available at little or no cost.  Later  construction articles urged that
>>> these poles should be wrapped in  fiberglass tape to prolong their useful
>>> life.
>>>
>>>   This might not be a particularly appealing choice, especially if  you
>>> consider having to wrap the bamboo in tape, but I throw it out there
>>>       
>> FWIW.
>>     
>>> 73 de
>>> Gene Smar   AD3F
>>>       
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