[TowerTalk] Cadweld vs clamps

[Steve Gehring]

The FAA and its contractors consistently "CadWeld" for grounding and
bonding.  Other commercial and local government communications sites
consistently use Erico Cadweld products also.  This is nothing new.  They
are "industry standard" and effective for the life of a comm site.

I see Chris, KF7P, chimed in... love your panel, Chris.  Thanks.

73, Steven, NL7W

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:

> On 10/23/14, 10:06 AM, EZ Rhino wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message----- From: TowerTalk
> >>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:49 PM To: Towertalk Subject:
> >>> [TowerTalk] Cadweld vs clamps
> >>>
> >>> I watched the video about Cadweld and read the info, but I'm still not
> >>> convinced it is better than old fashioned ground rod clamps.
>
> Argh, idiots top posting.
>
>
> Anyways, the main cost for cadweld is the molds.  Once you have them it's
> very
> cheap ($4/weld) to make the connections.  The tower leg/pipe molds are
> really
> nice to have as you can use them on a tower leg with out having to heat the
> entire leg up with a torch.
>
> One can use a oxy torch to weld as well with some silver solder, but it's
> much
> more labor intensive.  About the only reason I've done this was working
> with
> copper strap.
>
> 73's
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> Bryan Fields
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