[TowerTalk] Fwd: Grounding of tower

[Jim Lux]

On 5/9/13 9:06 AM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> The point was that burying brazed joints is common accepted good practice.  AM broadcast ground system are designed for a 30 year lifespan.  That being said, brazing copper wire to a copper clad steel rod is still bonding Cu to Cu regardless of the substrate.
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> Me, I'd use Cadweld - best practice - for buried ground rod connections.  The notion that an individual can second guess years of experience behind the code and do it better is hubris.
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>

Naaahhh..

For real hubris you have to do something spectacular like Odysseus did..

put up a billboard in front of the building department saying something like

I'm Jim Lux, living at .., and I used a non-code way to install my 
ground rods, nyah, nyah, nyah..


Then you wind up on a sailing boat hanging out in the Aegean and 
Adriatic for a bunch of years.