[EIDXA] Spare mast anyone?

[Richard Heinrich]

At the risk of stating the obvious - water pipe is NOT mast material.
 Yeah, yeah, I know all the arguments - but it is soft and bends easily.
 Schedule 80 is available and stronger - but is still NOT mast material -
but it is 2.00 inch OD.

Do you really want to fight when it bends?  We all have heard of horror
stories of bent masts from ice loading - as opposed to wind.  And again, I
realize that the HexBean would like come down first - but...

Just my $0.02...

Rick


On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:50 PM, David Christ <radioham at mchsi.com> wrote:

> The OD of a nominal 1 1/2 steel pipe like you get from Menards is 1.900
> inches.  Worked for me with my K4KIO beam.  It seems plenty strong for the
> 5 feet or so it extends above the tower.
>
> David K0LUM
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Rick Hadley <rick.hadley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a spare 6-10' chunk of 1.9" mast lying around?  I'm
> > getting together the last pieces I need for my KIO Hex-beam installation.
> >
> > Rick, W0FG
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