It's ironic that this thread just showed up. By coincidence, I put up a
Cushcraft XM240 just last Friday at 85 feet. Since I managed to "strip"
several of the hose clamps as I built the antenna, trying to tighten them to
the max, I decided to augment the hose clamps by drilling holes at each
joint to insert a stainless steel self tapping screw to eliminate the danger
that the elements could move or, worse still, fall out after the antenna was
at an unserviceable height. We get some hellacious windstorms here in the
Pacific NW and I could just envision that antenna at 85 feet, totally
unreachable without hiring a crane again, with a missing end piece. I will
sleep better at night knowing that the screws are in there. I don't know
anything about pop rivets, but they sound even better but the screws should
work well.
W7ZZ
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