[TowerTalk] weatherproofing connectors visited.

[shorton]

I'll add this from my latest experience regarding waterproofing 
connections it does not stop from lightning strike from melting whatever 
coatings you have...Had a SWR problem on 2M after I had storm dump 9" of 
rain in 24 hours...A week later SWR was normal again but then I had to 
lower tower for Hurricane Irma discovered tape was melted and deformed 
on outside of female N connector attaching to 7/8 hardline male N 
connector...I guess it only was on the outside ground of the connector 
cause center conductors was not damaged ether on the jumper or the 
hardline...Samuel


On 10/8/2017 12:51 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> One thing that has always worked for me is Vaseline.  A friend who worked
> for the telephone company said they used it to cover exposed connections.
>
> I tried some on some antennas and found that after a couple of years, I
> just wiped it off with a rag and the connections underneath were as clean
> as the day I put the antenna up.  A lot easier to clean than glue and
> tape.
>
> I had one beam with a PL-259 connection and it was also nice and clean when
> I wiped it off.  73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT <
> K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net> wrote:
>
>> One of the favorites (although I don't know by what percent) was wrapping
>> the first layer with the sticky side out. It does leave the connectors nice
>> and clean. OTOH there was a complaint about the hot melt glue from flooded
>> heat shrink not adhering.  IOW, to diametrically opposed approaches.
>>
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