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Huskers15 06-03-2019 14:23

20' copper pipe
 
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.

CSB 06-04-2019 13:07

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?

JJ_BPK 06-05-2019 06:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by twistedsquid (Post 651782)
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

Joker 06-05-2019 07:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Reaper (Post 651787)
Why are they so insistent it isn't a grounding rod?

TR

Yep, I’m with you.

JJ_BPK 06-05-2019 08:15

discarded bent lightening rod

vs

Alien-Nazi Proctologist bends Solid Copper Probe while examining Capt America


What ever sells.. :munchin

CSB 06-05-2019 17:51

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.


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