[Antennas] Cleaning/Protecting Copper Wire Antenna

Tue Nov 16 08:20:12 EST 2004

Some interesting ideas here Wolf. Is the horse urine available in aerosol
format? I haven't seen it at our local DIY outlet maybe it's sold under some
other trade name. Is it something specific to horses or would other
varieties do the same job?
:-) vy 73
Martin - HS0ZED
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[mailto:antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wolf WETZ
Sent: 16 November 2004 19:15
To: Antennas at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Antennas] Cleaning/Protecting Copper Wire Antenna
To clean Antenna wire made out of copper: use a water diluted mixture of 1:1
Sulfuric/Nitric acid (abt 50% will do), leave the wire for about 5 (perhaps
10) minutes and then rinse thoroughly with fresh water.
The so treated copper wire WILL NOT dissolve itself WITHIN SECONDS!
To protect copper use horse urine: get surgeon gloves - then,with a quite
wet towel rub the clean copper carefully and you'll get the green shining
(of the resulting cover consisting mostly out of so called copper
vitriol)which will fully develop after a few weeks additional exposing the
wire to the weather.
Perhaps you've already seen the result of such treatment already on older,
green roofs (eg on churches) which were - almost for sure - made out of
copper and protected as described above. I expect this protection to last
many, many years longer than anything else (even UV protecting poly
urethane).
best 73's de HB9PCX, Wolf
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