Two summers in the Aussie sun and the gel coat is stuffed.You need to put something on them for protection.
222dbfl,, how do you handle the spanish moss? i am all the time having to figure some way to clean moss off and i dont mean the long stringy stuff but the little buds that blow on and start growing on antenna.....
They will last till the first Lightning Strike...then it's done.
Don't forget to turn a glass jar upside down and stick it on top.No no, if you black electrical tape it, that's insulating tape, lightning can't get thru!!
Don't forget to turn a glass jar upside down and stick it on top.
A few coats of marine grade spar varnish will protect the fiberglass for years. Weathered antennas can be very lightly sanded (use gloves!!) and then the spar varnish applied. I have built a few HF mobile antennas and used spar varnish to protect the fiberglass shafts.
Only on THAT side of the Mason-Dixon linedown heah, dats called a MASON jar, sun