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Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor Selection Advice Wanted - Heavy Duty

To: richard@karlquist.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor Selection Advice Wanted - Heavy Duty
From: k2qmf@juno.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:33:45 -0500
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Hello Rick,

It will...
The only problem with the M2 2800 is the clamp slipping.
The rotor never moves!!!

73,
Ted  K2QMF

 
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:54:20 -0800 "Richard (Rick) Karlquist"
<richard@karlquist.com> writes:
> Now I'm confused again.  Is the problem with the Orion
> that the mast clamp slips, or the rotor breaks?  I purchased
> a heavy duty Slipp-Nott for my Orion to fix the mast clamp
> slipping problem.  I thought that would allow me to
> use the Orion with the MonstIR.
> 
> Rick N6RK
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of 
> K7LXC@aol.com
> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:19 PM
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com; donovanf@starpower.net
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor Selection Advice Wanted - Heavy 
> Duty
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > In a message dated 1/8/2007 11:26:51 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> 
> > towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> > 
> > >  As far as I'm aware, the 2800 has been proven time-and-again  
> to be 
> > incapable of holding a MonstIR in even a moderate wind.  I 
> > suggest  you avoid 
> > needlessly repeating this mistake, and implement your prop-pitch  
> 
> > solution right 
> > from the start.
> >  
> >     While I endorse the PP solution, the problem with  the Orion 
> > is the mast 
> > clamp. It's big and heavy but does a lousy job of  holding a 
> > mast. The teeth 
> > need machining - they're different lengths - and so  do the 
> > surfaces of the 
> > nuts and bolts - the dimpled surface gets squashed down  over 
> > time and the nuts 
> > loosen up. K7NV is the one that suggested these  problems and 
> fixes them 
> > himself with FB results. 
> >  
> >     He also has lovely prop-pitches available -  expensive but 
> lovely. 
> >  
> >     I sell them occasionally and send them to M2 for  integration 
> 
> > with the 
> > Orion control box. Perhaps a better solution would be the  new 
> > Green Heron 
> > control box. 
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Steve      K7LXC
> > _www.championradio.com_ (http://www.championradio.com)  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
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