Re: [A/S] Re: Refurbishing old TV antenna

[Rick Kunath <k9ao@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I understand you and your art work correctly, you simply want me
> to stagger the splices in the two wires, with the dielectric
> overlapped somewhere in between. 

Yes, exactly right.

> Under no circumstances should my 
> wire splices be directly across from each other.
>

Right. 

> Just one question about heat shrink tubing:  I only used that stuff a
> few times while working at a machine shop in college, and we shrunk
> it with a heat gun.  I don't own a heat gun now, so would a hair
> dryer work?  How about holding a blow torch flame near the tubing,
> but of course not making contact?  Worst case, I could always rent a
> heat gun.


A hair dryer will probably work, or as was mentioned in another reply to this 
thread, use a cigarette lighter and hold the flame a few inches below the 
tubing. It'll shrink in no time. Get it shrunk well, and tightly.

Rick Kunath
WBCCI #3060