[TowerTalk] 80m vertical ideas / questions

[Lux, Jim]

On 12/31/21 11:24 AM, Bill Coleman wrote:
> Perhaps UHDPE plastic cylinders would do as well as fiberglass?
>
>> On Dec 31, 2021, at 6:52 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If your vertical is
>> out in the open on flat land and you have a wind storm, it will
>> destroy plastic leg insulators and the ceramic ones hams find aren't
>> made for this.  Not sure about the fiberglass cylinders that fit
>> inside the legs.   Maybe they are more robust.


Both are available from McMaster-Carr.  Off hand, I'd think structural 
fiberglass would be a better choice.