[TowerTalk] TH-7 10M Dire

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 9/29/2010 7:56 PM, TexasRF at aol.com wrote:
> The decimal value for any fraction is the top number divided by the bottom
> number. 7 divided by 16 is .4375. neither 3/8" or 1/2" tubing will work for
>   that.
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> In over 15 years of selling aluminum tubing, the only user of 7/16" tubing
> I have seen is Hygain, for their element tips. So, you might give them a
> call  and get pricing on their 7/16 inch material.

Dealing directly with Hy-gain "in the past" was fast and easy and not at 
all expensive. What they are now, I have no idea.

73

Roger (K8RI)
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> 7/8" tubing is .875 decimal; plenty of that available. The usual wall
> thickness is .058 inches to allow telescoping of adjacent sizes.
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> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
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> In a message dated 9/29/2010 9:45:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> n9wx at hotmail.com writes:
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> Hi  Everyone,
> I am missing one part of my TH-7 10M Director...I see that
> DX-engineering/Texas Towers has the tubing parts, but the size is what I am  not sure of.
> The TH-7 manual says it's 53" of 7/8" tubing for D1 and 43.5" of  7/16" for
> D2, but dx-engineering/TX-twrs uses decimal points not  fractions...so,
> anyone know which one would be equivilent and is the manual  talking about O.D,
> or Wall or what? Probably O.D.
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> Thanks,
> Daniel  N9WX
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