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Huskers15
06-03-2019, 14:23
Stumbled across this site while researching non profit groups dedicated to locating and repatriating MIA's. The site administrator said they still haven't solved the mystery of the two 20' copper pipes. Any thoughts?
https://legacy.bentprop.org/mystery/debris06.php
:munchin
twistedsquid
06-03-2019, 15:19
Guessing it's just solid copper round stock, bent over to make it more transportable.
My immediate thought was that they were radials for a ground plane for an antenna.
Hilltop, near commo bunker, perhaps,
reset from time to time as ordinance rearranged things.
twistedsquid
06-04-2019, 18:54
Solid copper round stock is just raw stock, no?
Solid copper round stock is just raw stock, no?
Yes, bulk copper is usually moved around in spools or ingots, 200, 500, 2000+ lb.
The rods could be the remains of a large roll of copper used to swage into wire,, or bullets.. The swage equipment typically has a lot of run-out waste.
Or someones idea of a super lightening rod. Considering this appears to have been a ammo storage area?
The Reaper
06-05-2019, 06:44
Why are they so insistent it isn't a grounding rod?
TR
Why are they so insistent it isn't a grounding rod?
TR
Yep, I’m with you.
discarded bent lightening rod
vs
Alien-Nazi Proctologist bends Solid Copper Probe while examining Capt America
What ever sells.. :munchin
I’m guessing because one end wasn’t pointed, and that’s are no marks from the slider slapper that would have driven it into the ground.
It could have been a common ground rod that multiple pieces of electronic or even electrical equipment were strapped into so as to maintain a common zero reference point with low resistance and low impedance.
twistedsquid
06-05-2019, 18:25
Overstating the obvious here, but could it be just roughly bent copper rod stock chucked into an UXO field? As an attractant?
twistedsquid
06-05-2019, 18:44
40 feet at roughly $65 per foot.