Hi TT,
Well, my .02 worth. I have an 80 foot tower with Philly. I have noticed
some (but not much) stretch. However, I have a brochure from the company
that indicates there will definitely be some "relaxing" happening! They
say:
"Tension HPTG-I assemblies to approximately 15% of it RBS. Guy tension will
automatically relax to approximately 10% RBS..."
So, the company claims Philly will 'relax' about 5 but I don't think mine
did that much - but it did a bit and I tightened it up a couple times after
construction but have not needed to do so after that.
Gary, N5PHT
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of AA6DX - Mark
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:54 PM
To: TOWERTALK@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] fiberglass guys...
I agree with Bill .. I have never had any qualms about monkeying about on a
Philly installation .. I did not care too much about the mid-8Øs
self-potting process, but on the other hand I never heard of anybody with
failures. As to stretch ... never have seen any that was noticeable.
Though I never used them myself, I have seen an installation with fiberglass
insulating rods on the tower, I often wondered how that worked out long
term. Myself, I would stick with the EHS.
73, Mark AA6DX
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cqtestk4xs@aol.com>
To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] fiberglass guys...
>I think there is pretty much common agreement that just guying with long
> stretches of EHS without putting any breaks of 502s in it is mechanically
> the best
> way to go, and for most stations it is the best all around way to go.
>
> But, if you want to break up the line with 502 or 504 insulators and then
> use
> guy grips at $6 a pop, you can get pretty close to or exceed the price of
> Phillystran. As has been stated before, the alternative to these two is
> to use
> the Polyrod, which runs about $.50 /ft for 5/16 EHS equivalent.
>
> I have used both over the years and I am always amazed at the rap Philly
> gets
> for being stretchy. One would think it behaved like a rubber band when
> you
> guy a tower with it. I always use guy bracket assemblies and it doesn't
> feel
> different to me when I'm on the tower than if I use EHS or Polyrod.
>
> By the way, if anyone is truly sold on the concept of using 500, 502 and
> 504
> insulators to break up their lines, I have hundreds of brand new ones for
> sale..way below what they normally sell for.
>
> Bill K4XS
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