Re: [TCML] Primary Support Materials

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've even got a news segment with me grinding off PVC tracking for my Modern 
Thinker setup!
http://tesladownunder.com/Media.htm#Channel 7 TV Today Tonight 
AustraliaMay09
(you have to cut and paste that link re the spaces).  Look at 20 seconds 
into the video.
Peter

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From: "Ralph W5JGV" <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:13 AM

> > Secondly, PVC has a nasty tendency to carbon track when it breaks down, 
> > so
> > in the event that you have a primary arc-over you will almost
> > surely have to replace the damaged support.
>
> For a graphic example of carbon tracking on PVC, here's what happened to 
> one
> of the PVC insulators on my 166.5 KHz transmitting antenna on a foggy
> morning...
>
> http://w5jgv.com/2005_0214_antenna_fire/2005_0214-antenna_fire.htm
> Ralph  W5JGV - WD2XSH/7



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