Then, what's the PVC for?
I went with a closet pole (sans PVC) for my horizontal support, and it's still going fine after something like 10 years up on the roof. Around here (Northern California Sierra foothills), PVC degrades very quickly in the Sun, so it's more of a liability than anything else. It's also pretty heavy for what weather proofing or whatever else you think you're getting. You'd be better off filling the extra diameter with more wood.
The vertical support is steel, held in a wooden tripod.
Greg KO6TH
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:11:22 -0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PVC
Then what you have is a wooden structure with a PVC overcoat! The PVC is still not the "real" structural material.
Glen, K9STH
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--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Ken Ernandes [email protected] wrote:
It works well to fill a PVC pipe with a wood dowel the size of the pipe's inner diameter. Then you just need to weatherproof the ends of the pipe with caps or otherwise.
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