What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

Hanz Schmidt wrote in news:Q6-
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What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz



Clear Krylon spray, which will allow you to look inside to see if there are
any leaks in the coating because the leak will turn it green first.

Make sure you Krylon the connection points and edge of the foil.

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Hanz Schmidt wrote:

What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

ANY Clear Acrylic Spray Paint will do. Do the edges, and Connection
Points, and then respray it AFTER you get it installed.

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Bruce in alaska
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I gotta ask: what's the copper foil being used for?


"Bruce in alaska" wrote in message ...
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Hanz Schmidt wrote:

What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

ANY Clear Acrylic Spray Paint will do. Do the edges, and Connection
Points, and then respray it AFTER you get it installed.

--
Bruce in alaska
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Grounding plane for SSB.

Hanz

Chuck Tribolet wrote:
I gotta ask: what's the copper foil being used for?


"Bruce in alaska" wrote in message ...

In article ,
Hanz Schmidt wrote:


What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

ANY Clear Acrylic Spray Paint will do. Do the edges, and Connection
Points, and then respray it AFTER you get it installed.

--
Bruce in alaska
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Hanz Schmidt wrote in news:49471CE4.90705
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Grounding plane for SSB.

Hanz


Hanz, you don't need to use expensive copper foil that's just going to get
eaten, anyways. Aluminum flyscreen or even galvanized chicken wire works
just as good at 1% of the cost. Just unroll the chicken wire up out of the
bilge water along the hull under the waterline and it forms a big capacitor
with the seawater outside. Fold it up where the ground cable is connected
to it for better conductivity so it can fan out the current.....

Don't be too neat! No folds to neatly get it around a corner. RF doesn't
flow around corners.

I have used copper for 15 years on this boat. A great reception from
east coast USA all the way to Spain , Maderia back to Guyana and all of
the Caribbean. But the copper finally disintegrated, so I'm looking for
a better way for preserving it.

Hanz

Larry wrote:
Hanz Schmidt wrote in news:49471CE4.90705
@hotmail.com:


Grounding plane for SSB.

Hanz



Hanz, you don't need to use expensive copper foil that's just going to get
eaten, anyways. Aluminum flyscreen or even galvanized chicken wire works
just as good at 1% of the cost. Just unroll the chicken wire up out of the
bilge water along the hull under the waterline and it forms a big capacitor
with the seawater outside. Fold it up where the ground cable is connected
to it for better conductivity so it can fan out the current.....

Don't be too neat! No folds to neatly get it around a corner. RF doesn't
flow around corners.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:55:43 -0500, Hanz Schmidt
wrote:

What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

Gold. Just look in the yellow pages under ' plating '.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:55:43 -0500, Hanz Schmidt
wrote:

What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

Gold. Just look in the yellow pages under ' plating '.

Casady


27 bankers and lawyers with yachts just contacted their local plating
companies about plating all the ground straps in the bilge.....and it's
all YOUR fault....(c;]



http://www.allchemie.com/group-8b.html#rho

All Chemie has Rhodium foil to put in the bilge of the truly elite
boats. Rhodium crashed from $10,000/oz to about $1000/oz during this
depression.

I'm considering moving from Gold to Rhodium, even though its much harder
to sell when it's $10,000/oz in its very volitile market....no brokers.

http://www.kitco.com/charts/popup/rh1825lnb.html
Sure wish I'd bought a few pounds in 03 on the way UP!

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:43:17 +0000, Larry wrote:

(Richard Casady) wrote in
:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:55:43 -0500, Hanz Schmidt
wrote:

What can I put on copper foil to prevent salt from attacking it??

Hanz

Gold. Just look in the yellow pages under ' plating '.

Casady


27 bankers and lawyers with yachts just contacted their local plating
companies about plating all the ground straps in the bilge.....and it's
all YOUR fault....(c;]


If you put in on 1/50 000 inch thick, it comes to half a troy oz per
sq yard, both sides. How big does it need to be? They gold plate a
zillion connectors in the electronics business, but I don't know how
thick.

Casady