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Subject: [TowerTalk] Backup for equalizer plate bolts
From: n4kg@juno.com (n4kg@juno.com)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:44:06 -0600
The utility companies have a clamp-on attachment for
adding extra guys to an existing anchor.  Perhaps you
can get some of those from a utility, or supplier, or
even a line crew.

Tom  N4KG

On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 18:01:31 -0500 "J. Kincade" <w5kp@swbell.net> writes:
> 
> I'd like to back up the single bolt that ties the equalizer plates 
> to the
> guy anchor eye, but I don't see a handy way to do it, since the eq 
> plates
> cover the eye on the anchor rod pretty much completely. Rohn's 
> catalog shows
> details for safety wiring a single rod anchor and eq plate in case 
> of
> turnbuckle failure (and to keep people from messing with the 
> turnbuckle
> adjustments), which I will do. But if the main bolt through the 
> anchor rod
> eye fails, it appears one is summarily screwed. Is anybody backing 
> up this
> bolt, and if so what method is being used?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jerry W5KP
> 
> 
> 
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