[SOC] Looking for Heavy Duty Soldering Iron

[Fred Jensen]

Paul T. Antos wrote:
>    Gee,  I hope this doesn't mean the thread will stop. The guys on them 
> other pious reflectors often complain about a thread going on too long. 
> I know that won't happen here. I'm enjoying this too much.
> 
> BTW, did anybody mention using a beer bottle for a vertical base 
> insulator ( empty of course, and if not imbibed, at least used to 
> chemically treat the radials along with other unwanted fluids).
> 
> ABD  764

And, I'm so suprised ... no one has mentioned the "Beer Can Vertical." 
My teen friends and I built several -- Dads' drank the beer of course. 
Actually, we were at that young age when beer didn't taste good and we 
counted on our Dads.  That age would pass, of course ... and has :-)

I remember soldering the steel cans together.  The design even appeared 
in CQ Magazine, I think.

Yes, I used a Miller HighLife bottle at the bottom of my 40m vertical. 
"The Champagne of Bottled Beers" I think it said.  My Dad and the 
neighbor Howard loved it.  Mom had other opinions of that.  Antenna 
never worked well.  Thanks Mom.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party  4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org