Lenny wrote:
Where's the best place to purchase a grounding rod?
Any secrets to installing it?
Thanks all.
Lenny


Google for this, there are some interesting sites about installing
ground rods. It took a couple of weekends for me to get 8' into the TX
dirt, drove a little, drank a little, feel down, start over. I stopped
short of where I originally wanted it to go with about 1.5' sticking out
of the ground with a big ass ground wire coming into the house and
installed on a "ground plane" in the room.

You could buy an inexpensive plastic water pipe adapter (less than a
dollar)that has threads on one end of the adapter and a long (I think
they are sold in lenghts about ten feet long) rigid plastic water pipe
at a Home Depot store (or similar stores) and see if a plumbing shop
will glue the adapter onto the pipe for you.Screw the adapter onto a
water hose and turn on the water.That will make it easy to "predrill" a
hole in the ground for the metal grounding rod.Some plumbers use a
similar technique to "predrill" holes underneath sidewalks so they can
run wiring or metal pipes/tubing under sidewalks.Hey,if ya strike
oil,dont forget about me.
cuhulin

Thanks cuhulin.
Doubtful that I'll strike oil though.
But if I do, you'll be the first one I call. : )
Lenny

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You could buy an inexpensive plastic water pipe adapter (less than a
dollar)that has threads on one end of the adapter and a long (I think
they are sold in lenghts about ten feet long) rigid plastic water pipe
at a Home Depot store (or similar stores) and see if a plumbing shop
will glue the adapter onto the pipe for you.Screw the adapter onto a
water hose and turn on the water.That will make it easy to "predrill" a
hole in the ground for the metal grounding rod.Some plumbers use a
similar technique to "predrill" holes underneath sidewalks so they can
run wiring or metal pipes/tubing under sidewalks.Hey,if ya strike
oil,dont forget about me.
cuhulin