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Re: [TowerTalk] Crankup Tower Maintainance

To: "Don Tucker" <w7wll@arrl.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Crankup Tower Maintainance
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:59:24 -0700
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Don Tucker wrote:
>
> As to the cable 'slipping' from the pulleys, I have a hard time imagining
> this if the pulley's are of the proper size for the cable. Vertical
> forces,
> up or down, should keep the cable nested in a proper pulley size. Not
> using
> a lube because the cable might slip off just does not make sense.

Agreed.  Maybe they meant to say it would slip on the drive
cylinder at the bottom of the tower.  However, given the number
of turns on the drive cylinder, even this seems unlikely.

Rick N6RK

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