Author: Jim and Hannelore Fisher <jwfisher@alumni.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:36:46 +0000
I live in a salt-air environment and have replaced just about all U-bolts and other such hardware with stainless steel. Be sure to coat bolts with an appropriate compound before installing nuts--if y
What an awesome QTH! I also use stainless steel hardware however I have seen severe salt spray corrosion to aluminum where the S.S. is in contact. What do you do to protect the tower system from corr
Silicone seal ... RTV .... the type designed for use in aquariums works best. 73 Don N8DE Quoting john@kk9a.com: What an awesome QTH! I also use stainless steel hardware however I have seen severe sa
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:50:04 -0400
Hi Jim, For the past few years I've used a product called Never-Seez Regular Grade with great success on all of my outdoors fasteners. I'm surrounded by water. I've got the Gulf of Mexico to the west
Sea going vessels with aluminum superstructures and welded-on-deck vertical aluminum channels (think channel iron but aluminum instead) for mounting tuners and or antennas with stainless steel fasten