I have been reading the aluminum tower threads recently and thought I would add some data on the aluminum tower I had a number of years ago, maybe before some of you were born!. Anyway, in the early
It appears you had a lemon. Welding of Aluminum is not something for the casual do-it-yourselfer. The process requires special equipment (Heliarc) to fuse the aluminum in a non-oxidizing environment
I think you must have gotten a bad batch of tower welds, as I have had no problems like you describe with any of my Universal sections EXCEPT for the sections that were felled by tornadoes! One of th