[TowerTalk] Aluminum tubing needed

[Bob Matthews]

Sorry spellcheck drives me nuts in this phone. The source I was referred to was. DXE. 

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> On Dec 25, 2021, at 08:27, Bob Matthews <kt3rr at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Supplies of 3 inch aircraft tubing seem to be in very limited supply if not unattainable at all at the time. 
> 
> The common wall thickness you need is a. ,058 wall thickness this will normally allow tubing diameters of lesser values of 1/8 inch to slide inside the larger. IE  3 inch .058 connected vis 2.875. X .058 wall thickness. 
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> Or 2.875x .058 connected with 2.750 x .058 inches. You can increment these sizes down to 1/2 inch tubing. 
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> Normally DCE has a good supply however these days getting stock on shelves is a bit of a challenge. If I had a piece of 3 inch x .059 wall I would send it to you. But it seems even my supply of scraps are limited now. 
> 
> Bob KT3RR 
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>> On Dec 25, 2021, at 06:59, Brad Anbro <n9en at live.com> wrote:
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>> Hello all and Merry Christmas!
>> 
>> I am looking for a short piece of aluminum tubing with which to repair the boom on a home-made copy of a KLM yagi antenna.
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>> I need a 39" long piece of 3" outside diameter tubing with a 0.055" wall thickness. I cannot seem to find this size listed in any of the steel & aluminum catalogs, so I am thinking that this is a non-standard size and that KLM had it manufactured for them, as Telrex used to have done.
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>> I am hoping that someone has an old piece of KLM boom material and that they can fix me up with a piece of this tubing. Thanks for any help with this!
>> 
>> 73 de Brad, N9EN
>> Bluff City, TN
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