Sell the grips and blocks, buy more tape, but cheaper stuff than scotch 88.
I have used only tape here for 23 years and never had a problem, and I gave
up counting how many cables on the legs of the bigger towers. My only
suggestion, when you add a new cable is to cut off the old tape and secure
around the whole bundle with new tape. This makes I much easier when you
have to remove a cable at some time in the future, you don't have to cut
this layer, then that layer, and then the next deeper layer and try to get
them out between the cables.
David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul Henning
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 19:52
> To: K7LXC@aol.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Securing Coax to Tower?
>
> I have a Trylon T500-72 tower which will have six runs of LMR-600 coax
> running up one of its legs. For the past two years I had only two runs
> of LMR-600 up the tower and these were secured to the tower with wraps
> of Scotch 88 tape every four feet or so. This has worked fine for two
> runs but seems like it may be stretching my luck to try this for six
> runs. So the first question is how are others securing multiple coax
> runs to tower legs that are not round?
>
> Times recommends using their very nice coax mounting blocks which I do
> have a supply of. The problem with using these is that the coax is
> supposed to be hung from the top, in my case, using their hoisting grips
> (prime directive?). I can do this as I also have a supply of the grips.
> If I use the hoisting grips to hang the coax how do I attach six Times
> hoisting grips to the tower? The grips have a fairly robust saddle at
> the top of the cable loop on the grip. Any and all recommendations or
> suggestions most welcome.
>
>
>
> Paul N. Henning
> Director of Research and Development
> Amtelco
> Voice 1(608)838-4194
> K9PH
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