If the tower had been installed by manufacturer-recommended practice, one
would not need this kind of cure. On the other hand how long is the tower
going to stay in the air when the water freeze and split the legs open. But
you have a good point. Lets drill the holes 1/8 in size where two sections
come together. They are very strong at that point as they over lap one an
another. And that would give use 8 or more feet of antifreeze in the legs.
I just installed a base for a us tower HDX-555 and the pad is 4x4x8 with a
12x12x1 pad sitting on top tied all together with 10 yards of 3000 lbs mix.
It was the site of a 28 foot above ground swimming pool that had 3 feet of
sand and I have a high water table in my back yard. I call it the sleep
factor, My Antenna's are not be sharing my bed some windy night :-). Gene
K2QWD
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Eric Scace
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:07 AM
To: Towertalk
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Water in tower
Drilling holes in tubular tower legs at the base doesn't appear to me as a
manufacturer-recommended practice. Holes in tube walls
reduce the ability to tolerate stress/shear.
-- Eric K3NA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Eugene Jensen
Sent: 2001 September 29 Sat 19:34
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Water in tower
An excellent suggestion and I always enjoy the responses to some of
these situations that we all become involved in. My thought would be to
use our good old friend duct tape double wrapped, that way you could
check it from time to time. But my main thought is that this idea is
really only for a tower that the water does not drain from, because if
you had leakage at any real rate, then the water would dilute the
antifreeze over such a short period of time that this would not work.
73's. Gene K2QWD
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Keller
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:36 PM
To: Blake Meinecke; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Water in tower
Try using biodegradable RV antifreeze... and drill the hole to a size
you
can plug..... K3MGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blake Meinecke" <n4gi@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Water in tower
>
>
>
> <<Drill a small hole in
> the leg 4 or 5 feet up and pour 100% automotive antifreeze in. Unless
> you live at the "North pole" you will go though winter with no
trouble.>>
>
> Probably ought to try and take it easy on this solution... Couple of
rough
> winters and you could run the risk of turning your yard into an EPA
> Superfund site.
>
>
> CUL, 73
> Blake M. Meinecke N4GI
>
>
>
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