http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/ en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.8 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:49:19 +0000 120 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/d/31224-8/album272.jpg http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/ http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/Permanet+Splicing+RG400-1.doc.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/Permanet+Splicing+RG400-1.doc.html ]]> rparigoris photo Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:57:12 +0000 http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/E_antenna_cable_1.jpg.html http://www.europaowners.org/gallery2/v/Begin-06-2003/album258/album272/E_antenna_cable_1.jpg.html
Bob Archer E antenna conduit and cable attached to top fuse.
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Final coat of silicone added over coax connection.
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Bob Archer antenna wired and flight ready except for some silicone to be added around nuts and phospher bronze washers holding terminals.
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Since you can't easily get to connections after fin is complete, trying to do the best job we know how.
Nylon screws have a dab of JB KWIK to keep nuts in place (they were scuff sanded).
Middle stud has a phospher bronze washer between nut and aluminium. Since it's squeezing on phonelic, had concerns that tension may loosen, so made a fillet of non corrosive silicone to seal edges.
End stud has a phospher bronze washer under head of screw squeezing on bottom of E aluminium. In event we ever needed to get at connections (drill acess hole in starboard fin), heads of screws are scuff sanded and bedded in Redux/flox to keep them from turning. It also serves to seal edges of connection on bottom head of screw and E aluminium, as this stud also has phonelic in joint.
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Bob Archer E antenna now flight ready. We are using Tefzel cable loop from McMaster Carr instead of supplied white plastic loop.
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Last piece in. Note bottom of wood has 3M 375 packaging tape anywhere it may contact Redux.
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Reduxed aluminium to surface in center of antenna and patches on top and bottom. Also 1+1/4" wide 3 plys of thin model aeroplane cloth wet out with Redux:
Tip of E (2 places)
Vertical (4 places)
Bias at tip of center horizontal (2 places)
only have overlapped aft 3/8" onto fin because of sternpost, bout 1/2' elsewhere.
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Fiddely trying to adjust with various thickness mixing sticks to get proper tension.
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Bob Archer E scuffed with Scotchbright and cleaned with alcohol, then MEK in preparation for bonding. Don't want to take off pure aluminium on surface (Alclad) with something too agressive.
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