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Re: [TowerTalk] HELP WITH MOTORIZING A Tri-Ex W-51 tower

To: towertalk@contesting.com, Lee Wical <leewical@lava.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HELP WITH MOTORIZING A Tri-Ex W-51 tower
From: Tom Anderson <andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-to: andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Lee:

I've had a W51 since 1992 when they were made by TriEx and Karl Tashjian was 
their chief engineer.  To my knowledge the W51 was never meant to be motorized 
as that was never listed in the options page even back then.  The tower doesn't 
have postivie pull up and pull down designed into it and from what I've been 
told this is a "requirement" to having a successful motorized tower.

The motorized option was never listed in the specs book for the W51 or on the 
blue line calcs/specs that came with the tower.  Sure wish it would have been 
designed for a motorized uint, would have saved some wear and tear on my right 
arm hi hi.

73 de  

Tom, WW5L


 


--- On Sat, 9/13/08, Lee Wical <leewical@lava.net> wrote:

> From: Lee Wical <leewical@lava.net>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] HELP WITH MOTORIZING A Tri-Ex W-51 tower
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Cc: leewical@lava.net
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:51 PM
> For all tower talkers
>       Has anyone motorized a W-51 Tri-Ex tower? I'd like
> expertise on 
> motor(s)! Pitfalls?
> Does and don't'? Advice? There is expertise gained
> by one's own 
> pitfalls...then there is expertise gained from others
> pitfall...learned!
>       All comments welcome.
> ALOHA
> Lee
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