[Lowfer] XPQ Wasilla reports -

[K2ORS]

John, Laurence,
     I have had good sucess with silver plating in my loop ATU. It seems to 
hold well on the threaded parts.

73 Warren K2ORS

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> 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
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