[HATS] Re: Want to buy

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EMT aluminum conduit WILL bend quite easily.....but rigid 
thick walled alum. or galvanized steel conduit would be better 
on tower tops due to the weight of the antenna it supports...
and I wouldnt use anything less than 1 7/8" dia in the mode..
Of course I have used 1/2" EMT in building 6m yagis...but I wouldn't 
try to support a heavy antenna with it :)

Chris
WB5ITT

Robin Midgett wrote:
> 
> Fine for a temporary installation; don't do it for a permanent tower top
> installation. That stuff is meant to bend, & it will. Been there, done
> that, had to cut it off in two places to remove it from the top of my tower.
> 
> At 03:30 PM 6/2/2002 -0500, John Harrington wrote:
> >You can get ten-foot sticks of aluminum tube very inexpensively at any
> >electrical supply house.  It's known as "rigid aluminum conduit".  It
> >comes with pipe threads on both ends, but you can hacksaw them
> >off.   Costs about $15 for 1 1/2" (about 1 1/4" ID).
> >I use it all the time for both vertical and horizontal antenna
> >masts.     John  W5EME
> >
> >
> >Pierce wrote:
> > >
> > > Want to buy: aluminum mast
> > >
> > > 6-8 feet, 1 1/2 to 2 inch od
> > >
> > > 8 feet    1 1/2 to 1 7/8 inch
> > >
> > > George Pierce
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