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[TowerTalk] Tower Installation Question???

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Installation Question???
From: dick@libelle.com (Dick Flanagan)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:03:14 -0800
>     If your tower does need to be attached to your house, you need to use
> through-bolts through the wall with backing plates inside probably along with
> some sort of stand-off housebracket like the Rohn ones to go from the outside
> wall to attach to the tower.
>
>>  Any suggestions on what type of screws?
>>
>     If you're going to attach it to the fascia, use anything because they're
> not going to do much anyway.

Rohn 25 specs call for their house brackets to support a minimum
horizontal load of 815 pounds in ALL directions; toward the house, away
from the house and across the face of the wall.  In most if not all
residential structures, this calls for significant structural
reinforcing.

73, Dick
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