Hello, I know I have had extremely good luck with Scotchcoat in the past. All of my coax joints are made up with Scotch 33 tape, coated with Scotchcoat, let tack up cover with a couple more wraps of 33 and two coats of Scotchcoat covering that. Every joint, every screw and every junction on exposed dipole antennas needs to be coated with Scotchcoat, dip it if you can, just joking there but every place of possible corrosion needs a coat or two of Scotchcoat.
I have tried to use the tar type sealer, it does not last here in the Texas sun for long. I put up a DB 410 antenna coated like this on a building in downtown Fort Worth in 1975, it's still in service today. I do admit, I did take it down about ten years ago and re-coat all the connections and junctions with, you got it, Scotchcoat. What ever you do, tape the coax connectors first, don't ever use Scotchcoat directly on the connectors, antenna junctions and screws yes, connectors no. You can normally find it in the electrical department at Home Depot or Lowes, if not call Industrial Electronics in Fort Worth @ 817-731-7321 and they can ship it to you, talk to Jody. By the way, this stuff dries out fast and sometimes gets real thick in the can, you can thin it with MEK (Methyl Ethel Keytone). May have misspelled that. Just ask for MEK. Just my opinion, with that and 50 cents you can buy a doughnut! Paul -----Original Message----- From: kf4vgx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Scotchcoat. Is this the best coating or are there others recommended. Where would you get Scotchcoat. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
