"Bob" wrote in message
...
I need some of this stuff for antenna assembly. Anyone know where to get
it?

For those who don't know what it is, it's a paste you get in a little can
or
tube that you smear on mating metals to avoid having them stick together
after exposure to the elements. It's also used for soldering irons to
make
replacing tips easier.

I think it's molybdenum disulfide.

73, Bob


Hi Bob ... I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
boom-mast-rotor hardware. The whole works came apart smoothly after being
up for 20 plus years. The material I used between the Al junctions on the
TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box. Likewise the stuff
worked great. SS hardware used on the antenna.

God Bless 73 Tom Popovic KI3R Belle Vernon Pa

Hi Bob ... I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
boom-mast-rotor hardware. The whole works came apart smoothly after being
up for 20 plus years. The material I used between the Al junctions on the
TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box. Likewise the
stuff
worked great. SS hardware used on the antenna.
======================================
In the UK a very good stuff for outer metal protection is Finigan Waxoyl,
available from many autoparts - and hardware shops.
Living in a windswept area near seawater ,hence with a lot of salt spray ,I
use it on all bolts and nuts and galvanised metal clamps etc.
Of course it is NOT suitable to make galvanic contact between (dissimilar)
metal parts.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

Frank Dinger wrote:
Hi Bob ... I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
boom-mast-rotor hardware. The whole works came apart smoothly after being
up for 20 plus years. The material I used between the Al junctions on the
TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box. Likewise the
stuff
worked great. SS hardware used on the antenna.
======================================
In the UK a very good stuff for outer metal protection is Finigan Waxoyl,
available from many autoparts - and hardware shops.
Living in a windswept area near seawater ,hence with a lot of salt spray ,I
use it on all bolts and nuts and galvanised metal clamps etc.
Of course it is NOT suitable to make galvanic contact between (dissimilar)
metal parts.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH


This is definitely a "me too."

Waxoyl is excellent stuff - a blend of wax and oil (surprise) plus
corrosion inhibitors that really work. I recently pulled out a rotating
pipe mast that had been sitting in a ground socket full of Waxoyl. 10
years of condensation had turned it into more like an oil/wax/water
emulsion, but the bare steel came out looking like new.

In more normal use on nuts and bolts, the oil dries out and the wax
coating hardens, so it also acts as a pretty good thread-lock.

Don't know if Waxoyl is available outside of Britain... but if it isn't,
it should be!


--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek

Frank Dinger wrote:
Hi Bob ... I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
boom-mast-rotor hardware. The whole works came apart smoothly after being
up for 20 plus years. The material I used between the Al junctions on the
TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box. Likewise the
stuff
worked great. SS hardware used on the antenna.
======================================
In the UK a very good stuff for outer metal protection is Finigan Waxoyl,
available from many autoparts - and hardware shops.
Living in a windswept area near seawater ,hence with a lot of salt spray ,I
use it on all bolts and nuts and galvanised metal clamps etc.
Of course it is NOT suitable to make galvanic contact between (dissimilar)
metal parts.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH


This is definitely a "me too."

Waxoyl is excellent stuff - a blend of wax and oil (surprise) plus
corrosion inhibitors that really work. I recently pulled out a rotating
pipe mast that had been sitting in a ground socket full of Waxoyl. 10
years of condensation had turned it into more like an oil/wax/water
emulsion, but the bare steel came out looking like new.

In more normal use on nuts and bolts, the oil dries out and the wax
coating hardens, so it also acts as a pretty good thread-lock.

Don't know if Waxoyl is available outside of Britain... but if it isn't,
it should be!


--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek

Hi Bob ... I applied Permatex anti-seize to the bolts on my tower and the
boom-mast-rotor hardware. The whole works came apart smoothly after being
up for 20 plus years. The material I used between the Al junctions on the
TH-6 was supplied by Hy-Gain in a little metal pill box. Likewise the
stuff
worked great. SS hardware used on the antenna.
======================================
In the UK a very good stuff for outer metal protection is Finigan Waxoyl,
available from many autoparts - and hardware shops.
Living in a windswept area near seawater ,hence with a lot of salt spray ,I
use it on all bolts and nuts and galvanised metal clamps etc.
Of course it is NOT suitable to make galvanic contact between (dissimilar)
metal parts.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH