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de
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 12:05 am: | 
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Did you ever have your favorite vertical antenna break. Well when the last hurricane passed thru my area in Louisiana my fiberglass vertical bit the dust. Yup it went boom hitting the ground with a thud fracturing the fiberglass in the middle section along its length for at least 2.5 feet.
I mended its broken leg. Here is what I did. I simply went to wal Mart and got some fiberglass webbing, resin and hardener. I snipped off and trimmed small pieces untill the broken section was no longer bent with parts pokeing out all over the place and proceded to put at least 10 thin layers of fiberglass around the broken parts. Remeber to lightly sand each layer after it hardens giving the next layer something to grab on to. Soon the fiberglass splice was even stronger than the original and I was back in business. Now it is not exactly the worlds best fiberglass patch in the world but it seems to work.
Depending on the size of the repair, you might have to put more or less layers of fiberglass. Just put enough layers so that the repair wraps is at least equal in stiffness to the original. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 9:39 pm: |
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A friend used kevlar scraps from where he works,bullet proof. |
NITEMARE 5AE586
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 3:42 pm: |
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Duct Tape lots of duct tape!!!!!just kidding |
de
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 10:20 pm: |
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Re nite....
Hmm you know duct tape just might work in a pinch.
As long as the tape was not that metal kind of tape. If you used that non metalic tape it might work. I would not want to make a permanent repair with it but it should work in a pinch.
Sure why not give it a try. Duct tape is like WD40. It fixes everything.
DE |
GTO
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 11:08 pm: |
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DE - Where in Louisiana do you live in? I am in New Orleans and would love to see if we can talk.
THANKS
G T O |
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