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1. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: psoper@donedeal.encore.com (Pete Soper); Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:03:40 -0400; Hi Folks, The thimbles I got from Texas Towers and Hill Radio come down to a narrow gap, too small for the thimble to slip over a turnbuckle or shackle. I need a practical idea for increasing the gap; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00230.html (8,321 bytes)
2. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: Bill.Simpson@MCI.Com (Bill Simpson); Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:49 -0500 (CDT); Pete, Drive a drift punch or other large taper between the ends and it will spread it nicely. Good Luck, Bill - N5CMI Message-Id: <199706061606.MAA00617@dayton.akorn.net> To: towertalk@contesting.com; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00238.html (9,276 bytes)
3. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: KJ6Y@aol.com (KJ6Y@aol.com); Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:04:02 -0400 (EDT); I use a pair of pliers to spread them apart, put them on the turnbuckle, then squeeze them back together. Skip, KJ6Y Communications Service Co. http://members.aol.com/kj6y/skip.html -- FAQ on WWW: ht; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00242.html (8,207 bytes)
4. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: psoper@donedeal.encore.com (Pete Soper); Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 19:16:09 -0400; Thanks very much for all the suggestions. Some were close enough to instantaneous to be astonishing. Two things. I should have said I was looking for a way to spread the thimble without knocking the; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00246.html (9,078 bytes)
5. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: w5hvv@aeneas.net (Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph); Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:42:13 -0500; _____________________________________________________________________________ Pete, I have taken a coal chisel in the past and placed the sharp point between the nearly closed ends of the thimble an; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00248.html (8,770 bytes)
6. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: n4kg@juno.com (T. A. Russell); Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 17:12:17 -0600; Hi Folks, The thimbles I got from Texas Towers and Hill Radio come down to a narrow gap, too small for the thimble to slip over a turnbuckle or shackle. I need a practical idea for increasing the gap; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00251.html (8,562 bytes)
7. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: donovanf@sgate.com (Frank Donovan); Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:00:47 -0400 (EDT); Pete - I'm not sure if you are using Preformed Line Products "Big Grips," but if you are, you must use ONLY heavy duty thimbles such as the Rohn 3/8THH thimble. Rohn thimbles use the "open pattern" y; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00252.html (8,906 bytes)
8. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: ke4rna@Traveller.COM (Donnie Murray (KE4RNA)); Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:43:52 +0000; To: <towertalk@contesting.com> Using two pair of channel locks or vice grips twist them sideways enough to get them on. 73/DX, DONNIE, KE4RNA -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.ht; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00259.html (8,899 bytes)
9. Re[2]: [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: pramey@smtplink.ram.com (pramey@smtplink.ram.com); Date: Sat, 07 Jun 97 10:31:27 EST; I just twist them side ways to open them up and then twist them back after they are in the place I need them Paul WG0G/W2 I use a pair of pliers to spread them apart, put them on the turnbuckle, then; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00265.html (9,139 bytes)
10. Re[2]: [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: psoper@donedeal.encore.com (Pete Soper); Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 17:02:39 -0400; I just did this with a vice and channel locks. Put the first thimble on its turnbuckle in about 30 seconds with no damage to the galvanizing. I feel dumb but happy. Thanks guys! -Pete KS4XG -- FAQ o; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00270.html (8,397 bytes)
11. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: zettel@libby.org (Steve Zettel); Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:05:27 -0700; Pete, Now that you have opened up all your thimbles, may I suggest an alternative: I use a shackle to bridge the turnbuckle and the thimble in the end of my guywires. Advantages: 1. No need to open t; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00275.html (9,157 bytes)
12. [TowerTalk] thimble gap too narrow (score: 1): Author: w7ni@teleport.com (Stan Griffiths); Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 02:34:14 -0700 (PDT); I found the easiest way to deal with that problem is to clamp one side of the thimble in my bench vise and bend the other side away from it with a pair of pliers. This opens the jaws up "sideways" a; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-06/msg00292.html (9,047 bytes)

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