I just today took my old Butternut apart. I picked it up maybe 5 years ago
used. Checked the measurements out and installed it. It worked fine. I
recently moved and before I put it back to work I decided to take it all
apart and check it out. Similar story. I used a Scotch Guard pad and lots
of anti-oxident compound and cleaned the whole thing up. I did find a
package of that copper colored grease stuff stuffed inside the antenna. Not
sure if the antenna actually came with the stuff or not. There is no
mention of any kind of assembly grease to be used as far as the instructions
go. Either way, the package was still sealed, and the original owner had
never used the stuff. When I first got the antenna, I did squirt some good
old 3 and 1 oil into all the places that you would normally grease up. This
probably helped any further deterioration. Darn good antenna if you are
into the all band verticals. Thing will out perform all the rest of them
even in bad shape.
73 Jim K7SLI
> Hi Folks,
>
> I picked up an old HV6 and plan to use it on my motor coach. I took it
> apart just to see how bad the corrosion would be...it was real bad. Two
> sections of aluminum were just
> about welded together. When I did get the tubing apart the sections were
> pitted pretty badly. This vertical has high voltage ceramic capacitors
> (silver coated terminals). Where
> these capacitors were connected to the aluminum straps there was
> actually a hard white
> substance that I had to file to get down to clean aluminum. The silver
> was OK but the aluminum was heavily crusted.
>
> I have to imagine this antenna wouldn't work very well after several
> years of service...at least if the original installation didn't include
> some anti-oxidation grease on the connections.
>
> later,
> dave
>
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