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1. [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "Richard Lightner" <dlight@prodigy.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:16:44 -0600; Later this year I am going to erect a Rohn 45. Before I start this job, I have been checking everything on the ground to be sure all is good. I discovered that the bolts that connect the tower sectio; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00017.html (7,749 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:37:31 -0700; On 9/3/2015 10:16 AM, Richard Lightner wrote: Later this year I am going to erect a Rohn 45. Before I start this job, I have been checking everything on the ground to be sure all is good. I discovere; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00018.html (8,428 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:26 -0700; On 9/3/2015 10:37 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 9/3/2015 10:16 AM, Richard Lightner wrote: Later this year I am going to erect a Rohn 45. Before I start this job, I have been checking everything on t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00019.html (9,107 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Ken K6MR <k6mr@outlook.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:43:43 -0700; If they are real Rohn bolt kits they have lock nuts. No washers required. If you look at the nuts, one side will have 3 little indentations on the face of the nut. They are galvanized for a reason. G; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00020.html (8,718 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: David Robbins <k1ttt@verizon.net>; Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:54:03 -0500 (CDT); they are tight for a reason. get a proper tool to align the holes which will open them up just a bit without removing the galvanizing. if lock washers were required they would have been included, do; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00021.html (8,158 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "john@kk9a.com" <john@kk9a.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:45:56 -0500; If they are Rohn bolts they should go together fine using a wrench. My Rohn 55 nuts were dimpled lock nuts and yours are probably the same. A socket set will save some assembly time. These are galvan; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00023.html (8,339 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 14:50:46 -0400; Hi Rohn never used lock washer from the factory. The bolts can tight due to the galvanized They use a keep washer on some things but not tower joints 55/45/25/20 If you have major interference ( pitc; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00024.html (9,240 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "Jeff DePolo" <jd0@broadsci.com>; Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:30:01 -0400; I've noticed quite a bit of variation in Rohn bolt kits over the last few decades. I've seen hot-dip galvanized with tri-loc nuts or other distorted-thread locknuts such as what you describe. I've s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00025.html (9,624 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "Richard Lightner" <dlight@prodigy.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:43:28 -0600; I guess that I need to be more specific. 1. I am assembling the entire tower on the ground and marking the tower legs so that I can easily match them when I do assemble the tower. 2. Yes, sometimes t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00026.html (10,599 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: David Robbins <k1ttt@verizon.net>; Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:51:50 -0500 (CDT); 1. good 2. good 3. if the bolts/nuts are that full of zinc then pre-starting them on the ground is probably not bad, I have never seen them so thickly coated that they couldn't be started on the towe; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00027.html (11,505 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:00:17 -0700; If safety is your first priority, then you would know that it is much safer to perform work on a tower with both hands available. Get a proper positioning harness and a secondary fall arrest attached; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00028.html (9,132 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: Mark Pride via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:07:57 +0000 (UTC); Story once heard about a ham on Hawaii that thought be using stainless hardware instead of the zinc coated bolts would hold up better (better resistance to the salt air). Wrong - constant trade win; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00029.html (10,026 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "W3YY" <w3yy@cox.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:12:38 -0400; Two towers here - 120ft Rohn 45 and 100ft Rohn 25, both built with the original hardware supplied by Rohn. No problems with the hardware here during installation or in the 35 years since. But, if you; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00030.html (9,818 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: charlie@thegallos.com; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:31:38 -0400; <snip> <snip> The pro installers probably already know this (be shocked if they DIDN'T), alignment issues are "Normal" when erecting just about anything, including stuff with room, carefully made an; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00035.html (9,741 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Rhn 45 bolts (score: 1): Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:05:03 -0400; Over my 54 years as a ham, I've put up a few 25 and 45G towers, for myself and others. Over that period, the hardware has evolved. ROHN even made a "Dirt Base" for the 20 and 25G. I don't know when t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2015-09/msg00037.html (11,578 bytes)

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