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Subject: Broken rivets
Author: Andrew Williamson <andrew@gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 26-Feb-2001 18:23:11
In message <E14XVbg-0007c4-00.2001-02-26-21-55-17@mail8.svr.pol.co.uk>,
K5rr@aol.com writes

>KH0AC told me that he had experienced problems with Force 12 elements falling
>off due to broken rivets. I have a lot of Force 12 antennas and have never
>had the problem. (I'm keeping my fingers crossed.) Maybe it occurs only
>under extreme wind conditions, which mine haven't experienced. Dick, K5RR


But isn't survivability in extreme/high winds one of Force12s big
advertising points?

I should clarify (as there seems to be some confusion) that the rivets
which failed are the factory installed ones that hold the element
bracket to the boom. Clearly a factory build problem and the factory
don't want to know anything about it!

Andrew Williamson GI0NWG / AC6WI
Homepage = http://www.gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk/

One of the ZL9CI gang
http://www.qsl.net/zl9ci/


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