I believe you have bamboo growing in a good part of Alabama. My son was
living in Tuscaloosa for some time and told me you easily could find 15 '
bamboo sticks around, free to harvest.
You do have to treat them, by heating them to get them in a shape you like
them. Apparently, when you heat them up, some of the resin in the "meat"
will come out and coat the surface. If you don't do that, the bamboo stick
may crack along the length and become relative useless for our purposes.
Hans - N2JFS
Gene and Daniel--
Too bad Plano is so far from NE Alabama-- I have a moderate (several
hundred
canes) grove of Timber Bamboo that has to be thinned every spring.
Bill--W4BSG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Smar" <ersmar@verizon.net>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fiberglass Supplier
> Daniel:
>
> I'm afraid I'm going to be contrary to your <no wood> requirement
with
> my suggestion. When I was first licensed in the 60s, many QST and Pop
> Electronic articles on construcing quads suggested using bamboo poles as
> spreaders. At that time they were obtainable from carpet stores; the
> carpet
> material was often shipped wound around such poles and the poles were
then
> available at little or no cost. Later construction articles urged that
> these poles should be wrapped in fiberglass tape to prolong their useful
> life.
>
> This might not be a particularly appealing choice, especially if you
> consider having to wrap the bamboo in tape, but I throw it out there
FWIW.
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar AD3F
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