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Re: [TowerTalk] TX-472 motor

To: Wayne Crawford <resopkr@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TX-472 motor
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:58:22 -0800
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First try a big drill, like a Milwaukee right angle VSR model.

Rick N6RK

On 2/27/2012 12:55 PM, Wayne Crawford wrote:
> Greetings!
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> Has anybody here done a retrofit motor drive to run a TX-472 up. I did a 
> modification on the hand winch with a coupling nut on both the tower and 
> raising fixtures. Using a drill I am able to get the raising fixture to lift 
> the tower up quite nicely. However the tower itself just weighs too much for 
> the same drill to run the tower up. The drill won't budge it. I was thinking 
> of using an impact wrench but am not certain if this would be appropriate.
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> thoughts!
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> Thanks&  73
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> Wayne C.
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