"A. non Eyemouse" wrote in message
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If you really must use them you can now obtain compression fit UHF
connectors from most good suppliers. Far more reliable than buggering
about with big soldering irons and much quicker to apply. For an example
see ebay item 290800326125.

You forget that the Mongolian Hordes hold that I am a penniless failure, but
like
all abusive children, they are reckless as to the source of their gleeful
insults, for example,
I have never blown up an FT101E.

"gareth" wrote in message
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Must close now because my aerail rigger is due in half an hour, but thanks
for all the
positively social hints and tips!

We got the colinear down, but how does one get to the SO239 to remove the
feeder?

I don't know its make, because I got it 2nd hand about 12 years ago at the
Flight Refuelling
rally.

It's about 8 feet long, and a the bottom are 3 little radials about 18
inches long. As far as I can
remember, one should remove the stub pole from the bottom to access the
SO239, but therein is the problem.

We had the Stilson wrench, and any number of plumber's grippers, but it
won't budge, even after the
application of WD40 and the the gas blowlamp (and there's an interesting
thing, I'd not used the blowlamp for
about 20 years and Lo! and Behold! it has a soldering iron attachment
exactly right for the original PL259
problem (shame facedly) )

Any ideas, apart from sawing the stub to bits and replacing it with other
aluminium tube?

YES!!!! We did remove the little nut that fixeth the stub pole :-)

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:50:21 +0100, "gareth"
wrote:

"gareth" wrote in message
...

Must close now because my aerail rigger is due in half an hour, but thanks
for all the
positively social hints and tips!

We got the colinear down, but how does one get to the SO239 to remove the
feeder?

I don't know its make, because I got it 2nd hand about 12 years ago at the
Flight Refuelling
rally.

It's about 8 feet long, and a the bottom are 3 little radials about 18
inches long. As far as I can
remember, one should remove the stub pole from the bottom to access the
SO239, but therein is the problem.

We had the Stilson wrench, and any number of plumber's grippers, but it
won't budge, even after the
application of WD40 and the the gas blowlamp (and there's an interesting
thing, I'd not used the blowlamp for
about 20 years and Lo! and Behold! it has a soldering iron attachment
exactly right for the original PL259
problem (shame facedly) )

Any ideas, apart from sawing the stub to bits and replacing it with other
aluminium tube?

YES!!!! We did remove the little nut that fixeth the stub pole :-)



May well be corrosion welded! A few sharp taps with a hammer might
help !!

Rambo wrote:
A few sharp taps with a hammer might
help !!

Perhaps we might suggest same to Gareth's doctor?

--
STC // M0TEY // twitter.com/ukradioamateur

"gareth" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
...
Must close now because my aerail rigger is due in half an hour, but
thanks for all the
positively social hints and tips!
We got the colinear down, but how does one get to the SO239 to remove the
feeder?
I don't know its make, because I got it 2nd hand about 12 years ago at the
Flight Refuelling
rally.
It's about 8 feet long, and a the bottom are 3 little radials about 18
inches long. As far as I can
remember, one should remove the stub pole from the bottom to access the
SO239, but therein is the problem.
We had the Stilson wrench, and any number of plumber's grippers, but it
won't budge, even after the
application of WD40 and the the gas blowlamp (and there's an interesting
thing, I'd not used the blowlamp for
about 20 years and Lo! and Behold! it has a soldering iron attachment
exactly right for the original PL259
problem (shame facedly) )
Any ideas, apart from sawing the stub to bits and replacing it with other
aluminium tube?
YES!!!! We did remove the little nut that fixeth the stub pole :-)

The solution is going to have to be no solution, and that is, in moving the
co-linear from the top of the 14MHz vertical, is to move it with the current
PL259 / SO239 connection intact and dig up the feeder cable where
it had been cemented over by the gardener's (SWMBO !!!!) creation of
stone steps to the door of her greenhouse, thereby risking the wrath of the
gods, even
though all would be put back after a couple of days. Imagine the furore when
I said that I wanted
a 16mm narrow gauge railway all around the lawn, even though after 5 years
it has become
weathered and part of the scenery.

Thanks to all those decent civilised grownups who contributed to an
interesting thread, but as for the
rest of chronically childish and gratuitously abusive attention seekers;
well!

"gareth" wrote in message
...

The solution is going to have to be no solution, and that is, in moving
the
co-linear from the top of the 14MHz vertical, is to move it with the
current
PL259 / SO239 connection intact and dig up the feeder cable where
it had been cemented over by the gardener's (SWMBO !!!!) creation of
stone steps to the door of her greenhouse

Unthreaded the cable OK, but where it fed up through the hole in my
wooden shed workshop,
I had put the cable in BEFORE attaching the PL259, and it jammed in the hole
when pulling it back through, requiring a round trip of an hour to clear the
junk from
that corner of the workshop and replace it afterwards.

There's always one, and the air was blue, and not from there being no clouds
in the sky!

"gareth" wrote in message
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What's the solution to soldering through to the underlying braid in a
PL259 if the only
soldering iron small enough to engage the holes is a low-power jobbie?

Perchance the solution lies in using a junior hacksaw to make a slot
between two of the holes
so the big iron can get in there?

This is for an outdoors connection, so I want to ensure that it is sound.

Some say that I should google before posing a question on Usenet, but it is
my intention to promote discussion in what otherwise tends to be a dying
medium,
especially in uk.radio.amateur where the untechnical abusive lunatics are
taking
over the asylum.

This, now, may be of interest (and also his Part 2 covering RG58) ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlPcBVg45E

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:25:17 +0100, gareth wrote:


This, now, may be of interest (and also his Part 2 covering RG58) ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlPcBVg45E

Like you, I don't follow links, Gareth. It would help keep Usenet alive
if you were to type out the information and post it to this group.

TIA