[BC] Omaha Detonates Ham Gear

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Some thirty years ago, I needed to drive some ground rods.  I had  
read you get a two foot long piece of schedule eighty two inch  
diameter iron pipe and have one end threaded and install a cap.  I  
went to a plumbing shop to get this made.  The guy threading the pipe  
asked if I wanted the other end done.  I kind of questioned the  
issue, as if the end I was using "failed" I might want to put a cap  
on the other end.  It was only going to cost an additional 50¢.  In  
the end, I opted to not do it, assuming I could bring it back if I  
needed to have it threaded on the other end.

I thank God I never had both ends threaded.  I didn't understand it  
at the time, but the plumbing guy figured I was building a bomb, and  
if I had both ends threaded, so would anyone else, even if I didn't  
have both end caps.

On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:00 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 21
> From: Tom <Radiofreetom at gmail.com>
>
> NTM the various coils wound using PVC pipe as the form....
>
> Or any number of other projects...
>
> Maybe that collection of 1/4" copper tubing is part of an illegal  
> still, eh?
>
> BOYDSIRBOYD at aol.com wrote:
>> i have some aluminum 1 1/2 feet tubes with black caps on each end.  
>> there  for
>> an antenna system, if i don't watch out the fire department may  
>> blow them  up.
>>
>> bill
>>
>> In a message dated 3/2/2009 3:58:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> reader at oldradio.com writes:
>>
>> Attention Hams:  Make sure your transmission system doesn't look   
>> like
>> a pipe bomb.
>
> -- 
> Tom Spencer