[SBE] hole in heliax

[Stu Casteel]

Dime sized holes 300' up on 3" line?

that's some right decent shootin with a decently sized round!


> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 03:56 pm, Gary Blievernicht wrote:

>>  these are big holes about a dime in diameter.

>

>  Those are big. I'd like to see them before speculating

>  much further.

>  Where are you ? Driving distance from me ?

>

>>  the network analyzer measured it as an "open"

>>  330 foot from the test point.

>

>  Almost sounds like bullet wounds, ( in which case a splice(s)

>  right at the hole(s) should be all you need ) but I'd still like to see

> them.

>

> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 04:02 pm, Reynolds, Paul (CXR-San Antonio)

> wrote:

>>  Ahhhhh !  You have a bad line.  Get rigger to cut out a section then.

>>  Cut it once above the upper hole nice and square.  Examine interior.

>>  Then some how, some way, remove enough clamps on the lower part to

>> where

>>  it will loop out and down so you can cut off about 10-20' so the 'chips

>>  will fall out...not down into the flex.

>

>  Personally, I like tubing cutters. ( unlike many other climbers )

>  NO chips at all.

>

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