Greetings to TowerTalk readers: You you're a crank-up tower owner, please read on, others, may wish to hit <Del>ete at this point. For the past year, I've been 'meaning' to climb the tower and do wha
Author: goodnews@mail.cmedic.net (Donald E. Stiles)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:16:21 -0400
TT'ers, I am in the throws of installing a crank up tilt tower. The tower including rotor cage will reach 110 feet. I have a lot of cable to lubricate. When I do, I will use graphite. Probably the ty
I in I don't know what the cable manufacturers think of graphite as a lubricant. I do know that the ones I talked to recommended PreLube 6 as a cable lubricant. It contains rust inhibiting polymers i
Author: goodnews@mail.cmedic.net (Donald E. Stiles)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:12:38 -0400
TT'ers, Please replace the word "coax" with the word "cable" in my last post. Oop's tnx es 73 de n8csp k -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.c
Well, flexing is not why my 7 year old cable broke: it was rust -- all the way through the cable strands!! And it was rust of the cable on the winch drum; a lot of a crank up tower's cable sits on t
Interesting solution to your problem Tom. I looked into doing the same thing, however, before i put anything on my US Tower 89' crank-up i e-mailed US tower...they said DO NOT lubricate the cables...
e-mailed Yes. I would believe the manufacturer of the cable, not a crank-up manufacturer. Same with the electric motor, gearbox, pulleys, etc. In this case, the manufacturer just assembles the compon
lube on the "exposed" cables. You need to be spraying directly onto the cable so that it can migrate into the inner parts of the strands. With the sponge, you will only be coating the outside. Other
evidence Ignorance is bliss, eh? That's correct - you don't want to use a lubricant that attracts dirt and debris. Anecdotal experience including their own isn't worth anything. These folks should tr