[Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape

[Grant Youngman]

Cad-weld isn’t expensive — $11-15 per weld depending on where you buy the stuff.  Typically sold in kits of 6 one-shot crucibles, and available for varying ground wire sizes on 1/2” or 5/8” ground rods.

Grant NQ5T

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
> 
> On 6/4/2020 8:50 PM, Ed Tanton wrote:
> 
>> I should have mentioned that. I strip 5 or 6 inches of insulation. That
>> was why I cleaned the top of the ground rod and sprayed it with
>> electrical lubricant. I used a stainless steel hose clamp to hold the
>> stripped wires against the ground rod at each end of the stripped wire
>> portions. The next part is what I wrote about to start with.
> 
> Thank you for explaining that.  For our commercial and public safety
> communication site grounding systems our firm insists on cad-weld at all
> exposed and buried connection points but I would suspect that very few
> hams, let alone residential or even commercial electricians, would go to
> that length.  My mentor in that area, the late Tom Croda, who during his
> lifetime was the national expert in comm site power and grounding, would
> not settle for anything less.
> 
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>