Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-18 Thread IM Ashford
Just a thought, Why dont you turn the pistons around to give you a longer reach? Ian G8PWE - Original Message - From: Burt Lang b...@gorum.ca To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods What diameter

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-18 Thread Chuck Kelsey
: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods Just a thought, Why dont you turn the pistons around to give you a longer reach? Ian G8PWE - Original Message - From: Burt Lang b...@gorum.ca To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-18 Thread Chuck Kelsey
: Chuck Kelsey wb2...@roadrunner.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods Not a good idea. They are attached to the bottom to keep the expansion minimized. Turning them around will defeat the purpose of having

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-17 Thread k7pfj
Hi Joe, Sounds like a Tommy Rea deal. He used to cut the rods off on all of the Sinclair resloc UHF duplexers. Mike Mullarkey K7PFJ 6886 Sage Ave Firestone, Co 80504 303-736-9693 _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-17 Thread Burt Lang
What diameter are the rods? The older Sinclair VHF Hi cans used 5/16in diameter whereas the newer cans used 1/4 in daiameter. burkleoj wrote: Glenn, I need 6 of them for a Sinclair duplexer that I have. Someone cut the rods off when it was originally on a commercial frequency. The rods in my

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Invar Rods

2010-07-17 Thread Ross Johnson
You might save on Invar if you can get away with using coupling nuts to reuse your short rods, and don't forget the jam nuts. I've done it with no measurable degradation. Ross Kc7rjk -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On