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Old February 16th 11, 01:57 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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On 02/15/2011 05:18 PM, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 2/14/2011 9:01 PM, RHF wrote:

-where-as-these-
Low-cost Plastic Egg Insulators in a Bag of 10
only Cost around 60 Cents a piece.


Well, you really don't want egg insulators for this application --
that's not what they are designed for.

Their intended use is for guy wires, to break them up into non-resonant
lengths for towers that will be used to support a transmitting antenna.
Furthermore, if the egg insulator should happen to break, the sections
of guy wire will still be looped together, still providing mechanical
integrity.

The insulator you should be talking about is the classic plastic or
glass ribbed insulator.