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1. [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:24:46 -0500; Hi all, My Tailtwister has been acting up a bit (not bad for 13 years in service) and I want to replace it with a spare I have. It is mounted down about 8 ft from the top flat plate (with a TB-3 bear; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00032.html (8,393 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:44:07 -0600; Barry When I had to do this for a friend. I used 3 of the Home Depot type squeeze bar clamps. The kind a carpenter would use to clamp boards together. The bar is approx 12" and I put the far end arou; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00033.html (10,388 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: kb9cry@comcast.net; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:18:14 +0000; What I would do is to attach a pipe clamp (muffler clamp or actual piping clamp) onto the mast above the thrust bearing. Now the weight of the mast/ants will be borne on the top of the bearing. Then; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00035.html (8,343 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: Jim <ad6ij@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:21:05 -0800 (PST); I dont know if you have access to one, but what I do is raise the antenna system up with a gin pole, tie the rope off and remove the rotator. Also, if I recall correctly, it your using the top sectio; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00036.html (7,945 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: kb9cry@comcast.net; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:39:15 +0000; Using a gin pole to support the weight of this assembly might be pushing it's limits but I must strongly remind everyone that using the keeper bolt in the pointed top section to hold the assembly is; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00037.html (9,520 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net>; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:01:55 -0500; Barry, Take a piece of angle iron with two u-bolts on it, one for the mast, and one for a tower leg. Attach it above the rotor. Then you won't have to worry about that 4.3 degrees at all. Don N8DE Ba; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00054.html (10,372 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:09:10 -0600; Barry, I've replaced the rotator twice in our club's rohn 45g 80' tower. Here's my procedure: 1. Go to Home Depot (or equiv) and buy 4 u-bolts to fit the mast and 3 to fit the legs. 2. Buy three piec; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00055.html (9,379 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:31:33 -0600; I've done this procedure by making 2 steel braces custom drilled for the tower lengths and mast involved, using U-bolts to attach them above the rotator. Mark, N5OT clamp) onto the mast above the thr; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00056.html (9,909 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:02:05 -0500; What a great idea - score another reason why I am still subscribed to tower talk! Might be worth considering using this type of clamp to hold mast against blocks of wood equal to the distance between; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00067.html (12,862 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:18:51 -0500; keep your eyes open at the hamfests for an old hygain boom to mast clamp - the two piece cast toothed sided ones... they use four bolts ot hold the halves against each other - that grasp very securel; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00068.html (11,464 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Gene Smar" <ersmar@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:06:37 -0500; Barry: Before you loosen the rotator u-bolts, consider adding a clamp above the top bearing. I wouldn't rely on the two set secrews in the TB-3 to support the vertical load of the mast and antennas w; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00073.html (13,148 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "W3YY" <w3yy@cox.net>; Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:16:35 -0000; Barry - Perhaps it is too late for this now, but in the future if you install two thrust bearings to support and align the mast, your rotator will have no vertical load on it and you can remove and r; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00075.html (11,087 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: Phil - KB9CRY <kb9cry@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 05:24:41 -0600; I'd like to just reiterate that it doesn't matter how many thrust bearings one has on the mast, those centering screws are not meant to hold any of the vertical loads of the mast/antenna assembly. Th; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00076.html (9,372 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:33:57 -0000; Tnx for all the advice on replacing the T2X. I followed suggestions and constructed a "T" in pre-holed angle iron to hold the mast in place while the rotor was removed. Muffler clamp was also placed; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00742.html (9,323 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:47:21 -0500; the recovering W2UP wrote: 2. Carrying a T2X in a backpack up and down the tower is very tiring If you revers the top u-bolt on a T2X or Ham-X so that the curved part of the u-bolt is in the mast are; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00746.html (9,749 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com>; Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:56:32 -0000; I don't like attaching anything other than my lanyard(s) (especially something that weighs 20-25 lbs.) to my climbing belt. Makes me feel safer. Not that it matters for home use, but I bet there's so; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00748.html (9,765 bytes)
17. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:46:43 -0600; No scientific data here to back me up, just a gut feeling: My guess is most people will take a rotator up the tower with them exactly one time. I think a rotator looks like something about which you; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00762.html (9,021 bytes)
18. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:49:58 -0000; In my case, it felt heavy from the start. I put the backpack on in the garage and walked about 200 ft to the tower base, thinking to myself, "hey, this thing is pretty heavy." Besides the rotor, insi; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00765.html (10,422 bytes)
19. Re: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "Elliott Lawrence" <edlgal@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:13:07 -0800; 1. Tie rope to new rotator on ground. 2. Climb tower and hook rope with pulley to top of tower 3. Remove old rotator and tie to other end of rope. 4. Lower old rotator which pulls up new rotator. 5.; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00767.html (8,853 bytes)
20. RE: [TowerTalk] Rotor replacement (score: 1): Author: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt@arrl.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:21:52 -0000; Great idea, now if the rope just didn't weigh more than the rotor! David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net __; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-12/msg00769.html (9,118 bytes)

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