Hi Bob, Boy did you open up a can of worms and FLAMES....... The general opinion is to support the rebar cage in the hole with the bottom of the cage OUT of the dirt. IE: cross braces at the top of t
Well, Here goes my $.02 and a shot in the dark,, Why don't you give the fella that give of his own FREE time and energy to make the place you just posted your inquiry about a positioning belt a shot
Hi Mark, I own two LM-470's. The rotor plate (or the extra thrust bearing plate) is a is a triangular plate with round rod welded on each point. The rods are bent to lock into the point of the cross-
Hi Art, I'll probably get a whole lot of flak about mentioning businesses and names, but oh well I install 8-10 Times MW LMR-400 connectors a day. I've been using the Times Tools for about 2 years, t
Hi Don, Contact Karl Tashjian at Tri-ex tower in Sanger, California 559-495-0307 see his website below: http://www.karltashjian.com/ I obtained new cables, pulleys, bolts and plates for my LM0470 Tow
Forms are nice in a 'nice' world. But With a water table at 10' in my area I started digging a 4'x4'x6' hole for my LM-470 and the hole ended up being 5'x6'x10' + deep.... I dropped in the 'extended
Hello, I have few boxes of "NO-OX-ID" paste manufactured by Sanchem, Inc. in = Chicago. What are the specs for this stuff, it is usable in = aluminium-aluminium joints in antennas ? 73 de Morel, 4X1A
Hi Steve et all, I've purchased cables, pulleys and rotor plates from Karl Tashijian-Triex towers at http://www.karltashjian.com/. Karl is a small company that is starting up a dead horse. He is almo
Hi All, Yes the Tri-ex/Rohn TB-3 Thrust bearing is ruff and has always been ruff on turning. And Yes the W-51 had only three mounting holes for the 4 hole TB-3 Bearing. My LM470 (2@) both have a 4 ho
The height is ok, but what is the capacity? they say WISP, amateur, OK,, the WISP antennas are omni's, and panels (40"x5") with very little surface area. WISP's have radios at 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz (I kn
Well Nat, I feel lucky, and probably luckier that most of the hams living within city limits with neighbors. I've got an LM-470 Tri-ex tower in the back yard with a 22' stinger (1/4" wall steel) , wi
I built my station in 1/2 of my garage about 20 years ago and tried to come up with a good way to feed the coax through the wall. I went to the local building supply store and built a 'tunnel' out of
Hi larry: Check with your local Electrical Supply House. I use PVC 'pull boxes' for my wireless ISP installs. The have PVC boxes with full covers and gaskets that range in size from 6x6x4 up to 24x36
Well Fellas. The 'pucker factor' comes with the territory. If you want Big towers, you had better have a little 'pucker' , a friend that has a little 'pucker' or the bucks to buy the 'pucker' Myself,
Probably the best lead about pulleys is to talk to a person that uses pulleys in everyday life. I had A pulley system designed and built by a local aluminum and stainless steel fabricator that builds
HI All, I came by a KLM 2 element 40 meter beam. This is the linear loaded variety (with elements similar to the KT-34A and XA mulitband beams) ie: 2 elements on a 16' boom. I'm looking for a source
Hello Everyone. Like a whole lot of people i've been trying to find a source for Tri-ex tower parts. I just got off the telephone with Karl Tashjian of Tashjian Tower in Sanger, California. Karl is a
Hi Larry and Gary, et all To answer your questions concerning the need of a TB3 Thrust Bearing. I've purchased 3 of the TB3's and 4 of the TB4's in the past 6 months from Tessco. I don't work for the
HI All, Well , up to this point i've got you all beat on the hole situation. I Dug my own hole for the base of my LM-470D in 1984. The spec said 3.5' x 3.5' x 7'6". Well I'm 6'3" tall and I knew that
Well here we go again,,, Look out California, Your Next, We hugged trees, fought Cell Towers, and the tree huggers co-ordinated their efforts via the cellphone all at once. Now were petting birds, Go