[UK-CONTEST] Supporting an overhead run of Heliax

[John G3LZQ]

Can I suggest you go to a decent "Electrical
Wholesaler" and purchase the 12mm or 15mm
wide ties. These are much thicker and are
capable of holding much heavier weight. Mine
have supported 3xLDF5-50 runs and sundry
control cables on fences for over 5-years
with no problems. Being wide there is little
danger of them damaging the cable outer
sheathing.

73

John

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Regwoolley at aol.com
Sent: 18 January 2011 11:55
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Supporting an
overhead run of Heliax

I have just what your talking about a run of
cables from the tower to
shack.Its a bunch of all sorts from heliax To
control cable.  I use plastic
cable ties and have had no problem. Yes you
can get brake down from UV. However
 being a typical amateur every few years you
change something and therefore
the  UV problem never occurs! I would not use
metal ones with a tool as
there is a  good chance you can over tighten
them and damage cables

Reg G8VHI


In a message dated 18/01/2011 09:38:02 GMT
Standard Time,
roger.thawley at sky.com writes:

Just to  add to Dave's comments about cable
ties and UV; stainless steel
ties
are  available and, although more expensive
that nylon, these will  last
indefinitely. From a practical perspective, a
proper tensioning tool  for SS
wraps is useful for tightening the wraps to
the desired degree,  however,
these don't come cheap!



A little "Googling" throws  up a number of
sources  including
http://cse-distributors.co.uk/cabmgmt/stainle
ss-steel-cable-ties.htm



Roger,  G0BSU



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