[Public-List] Mast Refurbishment

[Mike Meinhold]

Worked great for me also

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 07:43 Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> The zip-tie cure was a perfect solution in our mast…
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> Gordon Laco
> 426 Surprise
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> > On Mar 6, 2020, at 6:54 AM, Michael via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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> > >What should I be doing now that the mast is down and I can work on it
> > >easily?
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> > My Brother-In-law, a lifer in the Army Signal Corps, was pretty
> insistent I change out the co-ax when he saw I had the mast down on
> Checkmate. SOP for the Army to do that anytime any sort of maintenance
> issue rears up.
> > Apparently water intrusion is guaranteed to happen over time, and that
> affects signal efficiency.
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> > Michael Grosh
> > #220
> > P.S. I may have seen it in the maintenance manual, or maybe here years
> past, but bundling the wires in the mast with zip ties every 3 or 4 feet,
> leaving the tails intact, controls wire slap in the mast. Elegant solution,
> I thought. The mast originally had foam rubber spaced all up and down the
> insides-on Checkmate, anyway. How they were positioned, and how to get them
> out, I leave for others to ponder.  MG
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