the typical White colored PVC will break down in the sun unless you
paint it with a UV shield paint
and you can always slide wooden dowel inside the PVC to keep it from bowing
good luck

wrote:
Will sch 40 pvc be ok for a 440 mhz boom? Or will it eventially warp in
the sun? (We have brutal summers sometimes).

Dennis Kaylor wrote:
... and you can always slide wooden dowel inside the PVC to keep it from bowing

I learned not to do that with fiberglass pipe. Moisture
made the wooden dowel swell and split the fiberglass pipe.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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