Re: Anti-sieze?

Frank Dinger wrote:
> > Hi Bob ...  I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
> > boom-mast-rotor hardware.  The whole works came apart smoothly after being
> > up for 20 plus years.  The material I used between the Al junctions on the
> > TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box.  Likewise the
> stuff
> > worked great.  SS hardware used on the antenna.
> ======================================
> In the UK a very good stuff for outer metal protection is Finigan Waxoyl,
> available from many autoparts - and hardware shops.
> Living in a windswept area near seawater ,hence with a lot of salt spray ,I
> use it on all bolts and nuts and galvanised metal clamps etc.
> Of course it is NOT suitable to make galvanic contact between (dissimilar)
> metal parts.
>
> Frank    GM0CSZ / KN6WH
This is definitely a "me too."

Waxoyl is excellent stuff - a blend of wax and oil (surprise) plus 
corrosion inhibitors that really work. I recently pulled out a rotating 
pipe mast that had been sitting in a ground socket full of Waxoyl. 10 
years of condensation had turned it into more like an oil/wax/water 
emulsion, but the bare steel came out looking like new.

In more normal use on nuts and bolts, the oil dries out and the wax 
coating hardens, so it also acts as a pretty good thread-lock.

Don't know if Waxoyl is available outside of Britain... but if it isn't, 
it should be!


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73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
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