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[Vinny]

I've got one of them angle grinders.  Got it at one of their parking lot sales.  I don't use it much, only when welding, the air angle grinder with a wire cup gets more use.

Anyway, today's delivery was 20 pieces of .250" aluminum round, 48" long.  



I'm going to make an antenna.  I picked up an Icom R-7000 for about $20 not working - then the previous owner got mad at it  and abused it some.  I un-abused it, fixed it, and so far the only parts I've had to replace is the antenna connector in the back.  A couple of parts got a little too cozy and were causing problems.

So the antenna I'm going to make is a discone, yeah, I can buy one already made for about $40, but I bought enough aluminum rod to make at least 2 of 'em, or 1 and another project for about $14.50 - shipped!  (Xometry).

Here's the start of the base where the lower, and longer, radials will screw in.  There will be 8 of them.  I'll be setting up the rotary table on the mill do drill the 8 holes for that and the top piece.