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Title: When work is fun! Post by: WD8BIL on May 06, 2010, 11:50:55 AM I just got back from doing a Firearms Impact test on a comm. node pedestal. Verizon requires this testing so I'm happy to conform.
The ped is shot at 50 feet with a 12ga, modified choke, 1 oz. of #5 steel shot. No complete penetration is acceptable. This one passed! (Hey, it's somewhat communications related!) Title: Re: When work is fun! Post by: WA1GFZ on May 06, 2010, 12:03:43 PM Yea, in the homeland security thread.
Title: Re: When work is fun! Post by: k4kyv on May 06, 2010, 12:06:14 PM I take it the node pedestals have become objects of target practice. Or is this just a precaution?
AM broadcast tower guy wire insulators have met the same fate. The base insulator under the big Blaw-Knox tower at WSM is surrounded by a rectangular brick wall. This was built during WW2 when the station was secretly involved in some kind of strategic communications, as an anti-sabotage measure. Title: Re: When work is fun! Post by: WQ9E on May 06, 2010, 12:11:45 PM I am awaiting pedestal generation 2, the pedestals that shoot back ;) Probably in our not too distant future everything will be video enabled so we will have clues to tracking down the perp.
I remember during my high school days in MS one of the local brainiacs shot a highway sign and his little empirical experiment proved what happens to the pellets that bounce back instead of penetrating. Title: Re: When work is fun! Post by: k4kyv on May 06, 2010, 12:36:19 PM In England, speed cameras are not exactly liked by everyone. But they seem to prefer fire to firearms.
Vandalised Gatsos (http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm) Title: Re: When work is fun! Post by: WD8BIL on May 06, 2010, 01:16:18 PM Quote ...and his little empirical experiment proved what happens to the pellets that bounce back instead of penetrating. That's why I shoot from behind/thru a 1/4" thick blast shield ala Mythbusters!! Some have returned to the source in past tests. |