Never seen stainless threads on custom fiber cables. Copper is too soft to be used for nuts. You are thinking of silicon-bronze—we use them on all stainless on towers. Cheapest solution is anti-seize from any auto parts store on the stainless-to-stainless threads and they will never seize. Really messy—stains you fingers and never comes out of your clothes, however. In pinch, like when you at the top of the tower and realize you forgot to upgrade to silicon-bronze nuts, any lubricant will do. Spit on the threads if you have to. Then go really slow so you don’t generate heat.
PC Blaze Broadband From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TJ Trout via Af Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 1:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Custom fiber cable? Just buy some copper nuts like cyclones On Oct 19, 2014 7:58 PM, "Glen Waldrop via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: What he said. Just had a tower fall. Stainless steel bolts were still seized on the sectors. Probably the only parts that were still together after the fall. We needed to adjust the downtilt later, but we didn't know how bad stainless locked up when we installed them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Custom fiber cable? There are no beans to spill, it's still just the 450. Now what would be great is if Cambium could get with Laird and tell them stop using stainless nuts on stainless bolts. The next time I find one of those MFer's seized up, I'm going to drive it out into a field and give it a couple rounds of 45ACP. I'm talking about the sector mast clamp bolts and nuts. We had to move some sectors around and every single nut was seized onto their bolts. Please for the love of god just make everything galvanized. On 10/19/2014 8:55 PM, TJ Trout via Af wrote: Gino, spill the 455 beans
