[Lowfer] XPQ Wasilla reports -

[w1tag at charter.net]

Laurence,

Was thinking about the brass bolted connections this morning. I'm no 
mechanical engineer, so this is just head-scratching...

Silver-plating the hardware might be interesting, but the plating 
probably wouldn't hold up well on bolts and nuts. RCA used to use copper 
and copper-plated hardware in their AM rigs. Probably high-copper brass 
or straight copper would be hard to find in those categories now.

I wonder how much good metal-to-metal contact you really get in a 
bolt/nut connection. Maybe something like Conducto-Lube 
silver-impregnated grease applied to clean threads would fill in the 
spaces and create more contact area.

John, W1TAG