[ARC5] Questions on the R-25/ARC-5

[Mike Hanz]

Chainsawing is a very dangerous alternative because the tooth spacing 
for the thin material promotes too deep a cut and catastrophic 
"grabbing" of huge chucks of material.  You haven't lived until you 
experience an ARC-5 set hit your shin at high speed in such a maneuver.  
I prefer using a chopsaw with a fine tooth aluminum cutting blade.  You 
have much more control with that tool...:-)

On 10/12/2012 4:09 PM, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Why they were built is obvious: so hams would have something to chainsaw!  ;-)
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> 1) Is there any definitive information on how many of these were built?
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> 2) WHY were they built? What was their original purpose?
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