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[dnw64]

Well lets see if we can help out a bit...

A G6 is an old 144 to 146 Mhz (Megahertz) antenna made by the Hustler corp. 144 to 144 Mhz is the so called "2 meter amateur band". An isopole is another ancient antenna that used to be made by a company called AEA. Now out of business as far as I know. It used a sleeve decoupling technique instead of a more traditional ground plane

Yup, that doesn't really help. And I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy guy... Oh, and I have an uncle who would certainly know exactly what you/re talking about - KD3XR (IIRC...)..

An other example of tightening a nut on a bolt, bring ups discussions of torque wrenches and penetrating lubricants as well as possible side discussions of castle nuts and safety wire.

I have a passing relationship with a very interesting company located just down the road from us. We milled some flooring for the owner, and one of our employees worked there for a bit....

Anyways, they make nuts (and maybe bolts?) that indicate, not torque, but clamping pressure. They make what I think is a very good case for the fact that the critical value in structural fastening is clamping pressure. Nut/bolt torque can vary wildly depending on manufacturing tolerance of threads as well as cleanliness of threads.

Applied Bolting Technology Products

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Anyways, they make nuts (and maybe bolts?) that indicate, not torque, but clamping pressure. They make what I think is a very good case for the fact that the critical value in structural fastening is clamping pressure. Nut/bolt torque can vary wildly depending on manufacturing tolerance of threads as well as cleanliness of threads.

Applied Bolting Technology Products

Very interesting. I checked out the website. It looks like their main product is washers that have small holes in them. The holes are filled with colored liquid. When the washer is compressed the liquid is squeezed out, giving a visual indicator. I could see that being a much better indicator of tightness than torque. Clever.

 

[k0ua]

Yup, that doesn't really help. And I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy guy... Oh, and I have an uncle who would certainly know exactly what you/re talking about - KD3XR (IIRC...)..




I have a passing relationship with a very interesting company located just down the road from us. We milled some flooring for the owner, and one of our employees worked there for a bit....

Anyways, they make nuts (and maybe bolts?) that indicate, not torque, but clamping pressure. They make what I think is a very good case for the fact that the critical value in structural fastening is clamping pressure. Nut/bolt torque can vary wildly depending on manufacturing tolerance of threads as well as cleanliness of threads.

Applied Bolting Technology Products

Here on this website is a picture and description of an "isopole". It seems someone bought out AEA or at least this idea for an antenna.

:: ISOPOLE ::

 

[k0ua]

Yup, that doesn't really help. And I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy guy... Oh, and I have an uncle who would certainly know exactly what you/re talking about - KD3XR (IIRC...)..




I have a passing relationship with a very interesting company located just down the road from us. We milled some flooring for the owner, and one of our employees worked there for a bit....

Anyways, they make nuts (and maybe bolts?) that indicate, not torque, but clamping pressure. They make what I think is a very good case for the fact that the critical value in structural fastening is clamping pressure. Nut/bolt torque can vary wildly depending on manufacturing tolerance of threads as well as cleanliness of threads.

Applied Bolting Technology Products

Interesting. I learned some things.

 

[goeduck]

girlfriends gave me the name in high school.

 

[Doofy]

girlfriends gave me the name in high school.

Well, that's scary. Those things are ugggly.

 

[Big Barn]

Well, that's scary. Those things are ugggly.

Just some girlfriends. Not all.

 

[Doofy]

Just some girlfriends. Not all.

Hahahaha. Rather obscene looking too!

 

[goeduck]

Hahahaha. Rather obscene looking too!

Hey, I only dated the hot chicks :laughing:

 

[California]

I used to post on BBS's and Yahoo Groups with my real name. Then in 2003 during the time I was researching tractors before I bought one, I had a bad experience.

I unexpectedly got buried by 10,000 emails, bounce messages from ISP's all over the world, saying 'recipient unknown here'. The bogus emails that landed on them had my real name as 'Reply To' and random names in the other fields - 'To', 'From', Sent By', whatever all those technical fields are. The content of the emails was Viagra spam, randomized so no two messages were identical. Obviously crafted to evade any spam filter.

Somebody had taken an old program designed to flood Usenet groups with crap and used it to spam their Viagra via email, using real names that I assume they harvested off Usenet posts.

I also got a couple dozen real emails in reply, from calm 'take me off your list' to several burst-a-blood-vessel shrieking outrage ones and a couple of 'did my wife tell you to send this' or 'who told you my secret problem?' The funniest one was from the lady in Office Of Tourism in a Bible Belt state who was outraged when her secretary or somebody gossiped to everyone about what it seemed she had requested.

Ok, it was obvious that the age of innocence on the internet was past. I decided I needed a screen name. One that couldn't be traced through other venues back to me - in the sense that Facebook etc, portrays all the information a stalker would need to go dox someone. So - why not hide in plain sight. A screen name that is unique here but impossible to trace to an individual. I had noticed in the early days here with less than 10k members subscribed and far fewer posting, that nearly everyone at that time was in the Eastern or Southern states. So ... California! Unique here, so my name could be remembered, and at the same time impossible to trace to me alone. I signed up as 'California' after buying my first tractor (Yanmar YM240). And found a community that I enjoy being a part of.