At 06:57 7/11/2008, Ron Wright wrote: >This has to be hardware that will last 20 years and not hose clamps >which I have.
Good hose clamps are SS and should last a really long time. Look around any junk yard, how many failed hose clamps do you see? How many like new? Here is a salt-spray environment and they seem to last forever. No lightning tho. Maybe they hate lightning???? -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html -----------------------------------------------------------------

