Can anyone advise were the clay that is used in slurry form around deep driven ground rods can be purchased. The electrical supply houses don't carry it.
-- Tom H
Can anyone advise were the clay that is used in slurry form around deep driven ground rods can be purchased. The electrical supply houses don't carry it.
-- Tom H
Clay?? You could try your nearest hardware store.. What sort of ground are you driving into?
Cameron:-)
The clay I need is called sodium bentonite. I need to know what kind of vender stocks the stuff and how it is mixed to form the slurry.
-- Tom H
This is a rather specialized market, and it's a very rare Electrical Supplier that would even know about suplimental grounding slurries, let alone stock it, and conductivity enhancing chemicals.
This URL below has an article that covers the subject to some degree.
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Driving and bentionite do not mix. Your going to have to drill a hole to make this effective. There is no way to drive and use the slurry.
Have you considered a chemical ground rod? Have you taken readings to be worried about this?
I used to do ground testing for both soils and testing the rods. We had problems with rods and migrated to chem rods after doing the testing and furnishing the information to the chem rod company
Good luck, try to get an EC&M mag, used to be lots of advertisements for this stuff there.
I believe it's primarily bentonite. Try XIT-Lyncole
--s falke
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