[TowerTalk] Boom End Caps??

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:40:34 -0500
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Boom End Caps??

In my part of the world mud daubers would add pounds of red clay if 
wasps didn't build a nest first.  Tower work is dangerous enough without 
adding wasps upset by your presence/activities.

YMMV but what is the downside to having caps?

73,

Patrick NJ5G


##  I had boom end caps on my old wilson 15m yagi.   Trble is.... after a few years
when I went to take it down, the weight was massive.   The boom was FULL of water !! 

##  IF u do use end caps. or similar, make sure water can drain out at the lower points of the
end caps...like at the 6 oclock position.    Some have stuffed a crushed coke cam in there too, or steel wool etc. 

## A few small holes  drilled in the end caps would work, as described above.   I don’t use end caps on any eles either...
same deal.... if water gets in...it wont get out.   It will just freeze and thaw and freeze and thaw.   Water weighs  10 lbs
per imp gallon....  4.54 litres. 

Later........... Jim   VE7RF