Do you remember what the 24 foot aluminum mast
weighed? I was quoted $5.90 a foot from Alcobra
locally but I did not get the weight. I have a 23.5
foot steel mast that weighs 98 lb and that is pretty
heavy to work with.
Steve K7AWB
--- KI7WX@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/2/2003 2:47:07 PM Pacific
> Standard Time, K4IA@aol.com
> writes:
>
>
> > I used a 1 1/2 inch 6061 with 1/4 wall and it
> seemed very "whippy" to me.
> > It
> > is also not that light and is expensive. 24 feet
> cost me $250. 2" would be
> >
> > even more expensive by a big margin.
>
> Last week I purchased a 24 foot length of 6061-T6 2"
> OD x 0.250" wall tube
> for $10 a foot (shipped right to my door in a
> residential neighborhood) from TW
> Metals. If I had been close enough to one of their
> yards to do a will-call
> pick-up it would have been only $7 a foot ($168 for
> the 24 foot tube).
>
> Be aware that buying tubing in single lenghts is the
> most expensive way to
> obtain this material. If you can originate a group
> buy with a couple other
> fellows you can reap significant savings.
>
> For the OP - If it were my tower I would just spend
> the money on a 1026 DOM
> galvanized tube and consider it money well spent on
> a long term investment.
>
> YMMV
>
> Mark
> KI7WX
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