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[TowerTalk] HDX555 top plate warped - K7LY

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Subject: [TowerTalk] HDX555 top plate warped - K7LY
From: "John Keating" <john.keating@outlook.com>
Reply-to: John Keating <john.keating@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:09:42 +0000
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Previous owner had quite a lot of aluminum in the air; enough stiff breezes broke the upper mast bracket on the rotator, and the mast spun frequently enough to tweak the top plate and the mast shaft between the top and second plates out of true. Now, a new top bearing doesn't sit precisely flat (gap is only a few .00" or so, mostly on one side) causing the new mast to bind in the shaft between the top and second plates partway around its rotation. Looking for suggestions as to how to carefully force things back into reasonable alignment...anything to avoid cutting off and replacing the top plate. Tower is on the ground and easy to work on.

John
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