[TowerTalk] Loosening Al tubing to Al Tubing

[StellarCAT]

I have a few sections from a used yagi purchase that are like this - a few 
of them I managed to get apart with lots of effort using a screw driver in 
an existing hole and lots of pulling ... the rest just wouldn't budge. 
Heating I don't believe works - its near impossible to heat them 
independently - so they expand together... I tried WD-40, and the slippery 
stuff - can't remember its name but for this purpose - nothing worked. These 
pieces are now in my scrap pile replaced with new material from DXE.

Gary


-----Original Message----- 
From: Don W7WLL
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 7:31 PM
To: Towertalk
Subject: [TowerTalk] Loosening Al tubing to Al Tubing

Want to restore a small inherited tribander for portable activity.

Have a couple of tube to tube joints that are not coming apart with ‘gentle 
persusian’. They been sitting in a coast air environment for a few years 
(maybe 10).

What recommendations here on TT of best solutions (s) to work into the 
joints.


Don W7WLL