[Boatanchors] Beam question

[manualman at juno.com]

The Wilson tri-band beams also had the same type of traps. I took my
Wilson System 1 tri-bander down two years ago and pulled and pried off
each trap black end caps off to inspect, clean, and bless for another 30
years of service.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 25 May 2015 12:26:02 -0500 D C _Mac_ Macdonald
<k2gkk at hotmail.com> writes:
> And the Mosley trap assemblies are unpainted aluminum cylinders with 
> black plastic end caps to keep water and insects out of the guts.  
> The coil sections are wound on what seems to be white nylon forms.  
> Two small holes are in the "BOTTOMS" of the traps to allow 
> condensation to escape. 
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> From: rayfrijr at msn.com
> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] Beam question
> Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 11:06:31 -0600
> 
> This may not be a Mosley then.  It has two traps in each half of the 
> driven element.
> They are black and circular.
> Looking inside, I can see they are quite dirty, almost a rust 
> colored dirt, but not rusty.  I do see the screw and
> mounting post inside.
>