[TowerTalk] OT. FS Tower & Coax Grounding-Sealing Kits

Gedas w8bya at mchsi.com
Tue Nov 14 15:56:27 EST 2017


I found 9 NOS, Andrew LDF12 "Sureground" grounding kits down in the 
dungeon that I was saving but will never use. Each OEM bag contains a 
roll of Scotch 3M, Type 700 Commercial/Industrial, 7 mil tape, approx 
21' x 2" and rated for up to 190F service. This is the best tape I have 
ever used for sealing coaxial connections.

Also included is a roll of Andrew Commercial/Industrial "hand-moldable" 
sealing tape. Approx 22" x 2-1/2". Slightly over 1/8" thick and very 
soft and gooey. Meant to be hand molded/formed over sensitive 
connections before the final layers of the outer tape is applied.

Also included is a ~38" long, #6 insulated, stranded copper cable for 
tower grounding. One end has an attached copper "cradle" or "strap" that 
can open & close making it easy to wrap around the tower leg. The copper 
strap is about 6"-7" long (if you were to open itup & flatten it out and 
about 1-3/4" wide. Copper is nice and very shiny. The other end of the 
#6 cable has a heavy-duty, crimped on (with double holes), terminal lug 
with ~3/8" holes. Also in the kit are a pair of 1" long x 3/8" dia. SS 
bolts that are designed to go through the 2 terminal lug holes of the 
crimped on terminal. The 2 bolts come with 4 lock washers, 2 nuts and 
are all S.S.Also is some anti-seize compound in a separate sealed bag. 
As these are NOS some of them may have some of the black "hand-moldable" 
sealant on some of the items in the bag because Andrew does not put that 
stuff in a separate baggy. Also one bag was opened up by me so I could 
make measurements of the items listed above. All bags have an Andrew 
instructionsheet. Asking $20 per kit. A USPS medium or large flat rate 
box would work well here for 4-6 of them unless someone wanted to 
purchase all of them, in which case I would need to put them all in a 
slightly larger box and ship via FedEx, USPS, etc. PayPal works aok for me.

Gedas, W8BYA

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