My whole ground system is Cadweld bonded. I bought the new style shots and purchased the igniter from Joel and the RF Connection in MD. Couldn't have been happier. And they're fun to fire off, too!
- pjd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Grant Youngman Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Elecraft Refl <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape Cad-weld isn’t expensive — $11-15 per weld depending on where you buy the stuff. Typically sold in kits of 6 one-shot crucibles, and available for varying ground wire sizes on 1/2” or 5/8” ground rods. Grant NQ5T > On Jun 5, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Phil Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/4/2020 8:50 PM, Ed Tanton wrote: > >> I should have mentioned that. I strip 5 or 6 inches of insulation. >> That was why I cleaned the top of the ground rod and sprayed it with >> electrical lubricant. I used a stainless steel hose clamp to hold the >> stripped wires against the ground rod at each end of the stripped >> wire portions. The next part is what I wrote about to start with. > > Thank you for explaining that. For our commercial and public safety > communication site grounding systems our firm insists on cad-weld at > all exposed and buried connection points but I would suspect that very > few hams, let alone residential or even commercial electricians, would > go to that length. My mentor in that area, the late Tom Croda, who > during his lifetime was the national expert in comm site power and > grounding, would not settle for anything less. > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
