[Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape

[Chris Waldrup]

I meant to add I couldn't get the shots to fire with the sparking tool I purchased so I ran down to a fireworks store and purchased a box of sparklers. They do a ***fantastic*** job at ignition. 
Then when you're done after things cool a few gentle taps with a hammer breaks off the thin ceramic form and you're good to go. 

Chris
KD4PBJ

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Chris Waldrup <kd4pbj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I use Erico One Shot cad welds on my workshop grounding system. Everything is tied together with cad welded bare 6 AWG and I have 8 foot ground rods, although I had to drive them in at an angle. Our house is on top of a mountain in TN and soil depth varies from probably 6 ft deep to exposed rock in certain parts of the property. This is probably overkill for QRP but I wanted to do it right like we used to do in broadcast. 
> 
> Chris
> KD4PBJ
> 
>>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:19 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
>> 
>> From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
>> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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