This is important for connections where you do not have access - such as wraps around insulators way out in the middle of a guy wire. Perhaps experts can tighten clamps properly THE FIRST TIME to pre
Grips cost so little in the grand scheme of erecting and keeping up a tower that I would never reuse them but get new ones. BTW I have seen cars drive up power pole guy wires and the preforms did no
The following message was sent by Peter Larsen <ve6yc@shaw.ca> on Fri, 08 Nov 2002 06:25:52 -0700. I agree (though their reuse is never really an option IF one follows the manufacturers' instructions
And where do I buy them to get them for "little cost"? I need to get some ASAP. Rick Karlquist N6RK richard@karlquist.com www.n6rk.com www.karlquist.com
Preformed Line Products (PLP) makes them http://www.preformed.com They no longer sell direct (though until a few months ago they'd sell you whole boxes only) so you have to go through a dealer. Call
FWIW: A quick check shows that if you wanted to break up the top 25 feet of your guy wires with insulators (using preforms), it would cost about $46.50 per guy (3 502 insulators and 6 big grips to br
Interesting - as I'm just about to install a guyed tower with 500D insulators breaking up the 3/16" guys. Texas Towers web site gives the price for a 500D insulator as $2.95, and 3/16" cable clamps a
Until you have to retighten the cable clamps that are located half-way up your top guy set. Not having to go up after them ... priceless 73, Pete N4ZR Sometimes a tower is just a tower
OK; but what did people do, not so long ago, when grips were generally unknown to the ham community? Were all those clamped insulator installations unsafe? There didn't appear to be a spate of tower
I buy them by the box (of 100 for 3/16, of 50 for 1/4 inch) direct from Preformed Line Products Company in Cleveland, Ohio. They will ship less than a full box at the per unit price plus a modest fee
I'd guess that I have around 200 of the 'smaller' insulators installed in my 3/16 inch guys with PLP Dead Ends (guy grips) on 7 towers ranging in height from 40 ft to 135 ft. I 're-form' the radius o
I know of TWO towers that fell full length from cables pulling through TWO cable clamps and heard of a third (120 footer) where all but the BOTTOM set of guys pulled out just after the tower was inst
I'd guess that I have around 200 of the 'smaller' insulators installed in my 3/16 inch guys with PLP Dead Ends (guy grips) on 7 towers ranging in height from 40 ft to 135 ft. I 're-form' the radius o
I know of TWO towers that fell full length from cables pulling through TWO cable clamps and heard of a third (120 footer) where all but the BOTTOM set of guys pulled out just after the tower was inst
There are two sets of painted cross-over marks on Preformed grips. The first one (closest to the termination loop) is for normal thimble-type installations. The second set is for installation with in
I use the FIRST stripe since the spacing of the grooves of the small insulators only about 1.25 inches, roughly equivalent to modest sized thimble. Tom N4KG __________________________________________
Unfortunately, as of a few months ago when I last spoke with them, PLP no longer sells direct - even full boxes. Now they want you to go through a dealer. When I tried this, the price Graybar (the PL