Hardware stores have slip on caps (of various sizes) that I used to get for my elderly aunt's walker and canes. I have found them to be satisfactory, but change them often because they will deteriorate and begin to leak.

Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

I'll mull this over a bit, and then charge ahead

Wayne
W5GIE

Wayne wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

I could understand that you would want a spherical tip end to reduce
the risk of arcing, but it would need to be metallic and would not suffer
from UV or heat.

On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.


I could understand that you would want a spherical tip end to reduce
the risk of arcing, but it would need to be metallic and would not suffer
from UV or heat.

"Audio1" wrote in message ...

On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down
for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available
materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.
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Exactly.

Audio1 wrote:
On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.

Ah tube... I was thinking about steel rod with a pointy (and maybe
dangerous) end.

In message , Rob
writes
Audio1 wrote:
On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.

Ah tube... I was thinking about steel rod with a pointy (and maybe
dangerous) end.

Expanding foam filler (trim off what oozes back out of the ends of the
tube).
--
Ian

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"Rob" wrote in message
...
Audio1 wrote:
On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down
for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available
materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot
reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.

Ah tube... I was thinking about steel rod with a pointy (and maybe
dangerous) end.
-
Yes in some posts last week or so, I was talking about a steel whip.
However, I have ordered some telescoping tubing to replace the whip with a
longer radiator. It won't be that difficult to take the antenna up and
down, but at my age, it's better to stay off ladders and roofs

-Wayne
W5GIE

In Audio1 wrote:

On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna
down for a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily
available materials hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot
reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow
and insects out of the tube.

It would also prevent the tube from howling or "singing" when the wind
hits just right.

--
Bert Hyman W0RSB St. Paul, MN

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:13:54 -0500, Audio1 wrote:
On 12/15/2011 12:11 PM, Rob wrote:
wrote:
Thanks for the ideas.
The question was prompted because I don't want to take the antenna down for
a check or repair, and I don't know how well my readily available materials
hold up under UV and heat.

How useful is it to have plastic tip caps on an antenna you cannot reach?

If the antenna is made of hollow aluminum tubing it keeps rain, snow and
insects out of the tube.

Intelligent questions have a better chance of
receiving intelligent answers -- versus receiving QRM.

Is this a vertical whip antenna, a vertical tubing antenna, a vertical
pipe antenna, a vertical tower antenna, or even a vertical wire antenna?