[Premium-Rx] Antenna supplies

[Carcia, Frank A. HS]

Epoxy boat paint works great. Don't use 
zinc or you may have a resistor.  fc 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Kincade [mailto:w5kp at direcway.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:14 PM
To: Carcia, Frank A. HS; Premium-Rx (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Antenna supplies


Have used some of these for both antenna work and for electric fence posts.
They are fine, but be sure to spray them with a good flat black paint before
putting them outdoors for the long term. Their surfaces are raw
(non-UV-protected), and UV will eat them in about two years or sooner,
causing them to produce those nasty little thin fiberglass surface
splinters, and believe me you don't want that stuff in the palms of your
hands. Been there. Black paint seems to make them last much, much longer
before deteriorating. They are of course much heavier per unit of length
than fiberglass tubing, so aren't much good for self-supporting horizontal
elements in pieced-together longer lengths, where they quickly become an
inverted "U".  :-)
73, Jerry W5KP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carcia, Frank A. HS" <francis.carcia at hs.utc.com>
To: "Premium-Rx (E-mail)" <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:48 AM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Antenna supplies


> hi All,
> I found Home Depot sells fiber glass rod cheap. The application is
> markers for the snow plow like the sides of the drive way.
> They are 3 or 4 feet long and about 1/4 inch in diameter. These
> would make good material if one wanted to build a T2FD
> or open wire transmission line. I found them in the hardware area.
> fc
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