<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Sorry Jon,</span></div><div><span>I don't know how to start a new thread, I am not much of a computer nerd, wish I was.</span></div><div><span>I have ben using 3/8 in steel rod for the battery supply and 1/8in I think for control wires, again steel.</span></div><div><span>I wonder if other materials would be better. That may be worth testing also. </span></div><div><span>Hank</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:42:32 PM, Jon
Wallace <jonw@psubs.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">Can I ask that we try to keep the subject lines on target? Better to <br clear="none">start a new topic with appropriate subject than hi-jack a thread with <br clear="none">topic that has no bearing on the subject.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A threaded rod should certainly do better than bare wire, like re-bar in <br clear="none">concrete. It represents a problem however when you want to pass 8 or 10 <br clear="none">wires through because you end up needing a rather large housing to keep <br clear="none">all the rods separated. Curious if you are using steel, brass, or <br clear="none">aluminum threaded rod Hank, what size, and what size wire you are <br clear="none">connecting to the rods.<div class="yqt6388176324" id="yqtfd82783"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jon<br clear="none"><br
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