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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Legs

To: <towertalk@contesting.com>, "Warrenwolff" <warrenwolff@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Legs
From: "Steve Jones" <n6sj@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:24:43 -0800
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Warren-

The engineer at US Tower told me a Home Depot bronze ground clamp on my 
galvanized HDX-589 tower would be fine.  The clamp wraps around a tower 
brace and the #2 copper wire goes into a hole with a lock nut on the back of 
the clamp.  Copper and zinc never touch each other.

73,
Steve
N6SJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warrenwolff" <warrenwolff@aol.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:40 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Legs


> Greetings:
>
> I note the comment about CadWelding to a tower
> leg.  I have seen posts here (where else?) on how
> to do it and then, just "don't do it".
>
> The installer I am using wants to exothermically
> attach my #2 copper to the legs of an AN-HD60
> tower, whose legs are definitely not thin.
>
> This was in response to my failed attempts to locate
> any "stainless shims" for clamping the #2 to the
> legs.
>
> Comments, please.
>
> Warren; W7WY
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