When work is fun!

[WD8BIL]

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!)

[WA1GFZ]

Yea, in the homeland security thread.

[k4kyv]

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.

[WQ9E]

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.

[k4kyv]

In England, speed cameras are not exactly liked by everyone.  But they seem to prefer fire to firearms.

Vandalised Gatsos

[WD8BIL]

...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.