[Antennas] Cleaning/Protecting Copper Wire Antenna

Tue Nov 16 09:27:18 EST 2004

Martin, you'll have to substitute elephant urine at your QTH.
73, Joe
Martin Sole wrote:
>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
>>>-----Original Message-----
>From: antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[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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