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Re: [TowerTalk] Loosening Al tubing to Al Tubing

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Loosening Al tubing to Al Tubing
From: DWKANEPE--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: DWKANEPE@aol.com
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:51:10 -0400
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When you do that....after applying MODERATE heat.....melt some candle was  
so it wicks into the joint...let it cool (the wax expands as it cools) and 
then  see if you can tap the element loose.
 
(another) Don
WB2BEZ
 
 
In a message dated 6/11/2016 8:02:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
w7why@frontier.com writes:

HI  Don

I remember some years back, KH6IJ had an article in CQ about  stuck
elements.

What he did was take a pair of vice grips and clamp  a screwdriver to the
end of the element you are trying to remove with the  handle pointing
towards the boom.

Heat the joint and then hit the  screwdriver with a hammer to drive it out.
I have done that before and it  worked pretty slick.  73 and GL
Tom W7WHY


On Sat, Jun 11,  2016 at 4:31 PM, Don W7WLL <w7wll@arrl.net> wrote:

> Want to  restore a small inherited tribander for portable activity.
>
>  Have a couple of tube to tube joints that are not coming apart with
>  ‘gentle persusian’. They been sitting in a coast air environment for a  
few
> years (maybe 10).
>
> What recommendations here on TT  of best solutions (s) to work into the
> joints.
>
>
>  Don W7WLL
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