At 08:30 AM 9/29/1999 EDT, W4nf@aol.com wrote:
>
>Last night I started putting together my guys (broken into non resonant
>lengths) with the insulators and big grips that just arrived. I had planned
>to have the guy that attached directly to the tower be about 4' long. So I
>pre cut some guys that were 3' long to take into account the additional 6"
>that the big grip provides on each end of the guy. The problem is that the
>1/4" big grips are so long that the 3' guy piece, that I need to wrap them
>on, is not long enough to allow the guy to extend past the second set of
>yellow marks without the two big grips overlapping in the middle of the 3'
>piece. If I put the guy wire about 1" down below the second yellow mark
then
>I might have enough room to get two big grips on the 3' guy piece. What are
>your thoughts on having the guy cable not extend past the second yellow mark?
Not a good idea - these are friction devices and I'd want to be very sure
that every inch of designed friction surface is in play.
> Should I just recut a bunch of 4' - 5' sections to come off the tower with.
I'd suggest that - mine are probably closer to 4 than 5, but you're right -
the big grips almost come together in the middle.
>I'm going to go search for the big grip website now, maybe they will have
>something on there. A set of instructions did come with the big grips but
>they were for the Phillstran types. Your thoughts please as I'm trying to
>get the guys all made up prior to the tower raising on Saturday.
Yikes, make sure you didn't get Philly grips by mistake. I know that the
marks on mine, for 3/16 EHS, were red, not yellow. I'm not sure if the
variation is significant.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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