Per Rohn's recommendation, I used double brace Rohn 65G sections above my
top star guy. I was unaware that this was also available in Rohn 55G.
The bolts on commercial towers like my Rohn 65G have pal nuts to keep them
from loosening and falling out. Their ham towers do not have them.
Perhaps the pressure from the compressed tubing was supposed to act like a
lock washer. My new Rohn 55G tower did come with crimped lock nuts which
damages the threads so it does not easily loosen. The Rohn 55 guy
brackets came with pal nuts.
John KK9A
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Subject: [TowerTalk] ROHN TOWER BOLTS
From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 00:34:27 -0700
## On a similar note... a buddy of mine has a K0XG rotating 55 G tower.
His
top 3
sections are the beefed up sections...with the extra diagonals in them.
They
weigh
a bit more than regular 55G sections....and look like a continuous X.... plus
the usual
horizontals. He has 25 feet of this beefed up sections above the very top
ring.
## A few months ago, one of the bolts fell right out...and landed next to
the
tower base.
Upon inspection, the nut from the 2nd bolt on the same leg has vanished !
This install
is new as just a few years ago. The vibration at times appears to shake the
tower pretty
good with the myriad of yagis installed on it. Dunno why Rohn didn?t use
nylocks everywhere.
UST uses nylocks on everything. Apparently the new style Rohn nuts are
one
time use only,
and will not vibrate loose. Think about it for a minute......putting a
nut
on a bolt that is through a
tubular leg is asking for trouble imo. The nuts is not bearing down on a
flat
surface but a curved
surface. You can only crank so much torque on those bolts too.
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