At 11:25 PM 10/6/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Fellows: PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! DO NOT USE EMT FOR TOWER
>WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>I spent many years in the electrical supply business, and EMT Electrical
>Metalic Tubing is just that, TUBING. It is cold rolled steel and then
>"lightly" galvinized! EMT is made to be bent, EMT is made to be used
>inside only!! Ask any electrician and he will tell you that EMT is
>"Cheap" stuff and should not be used for any load handling duty. I
>wouldn't use EMT for anything heaver than a pipe to hold my tower rope!!
>
>If you must be "Cheap" with your mast material please use at least the
>Chain link fencing posts or top rails, at least this stuff is "Designed"
>to be used outdoors. A trip up the tower to remove even a vertical that
>is attached to a bent piece of mast material is no fun!!
>
>Reagrds................. Jack
Fellows: PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! DO NOT USE CHAIN LINK
FENCE FOR TOWER WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would even be very suspicious of chain link fence toprail! I have seen some
of the stuff that is not tubing at all--just a piece of flat stock that is
rolled
into a cylinder and then galavanized. This sticks it together and makes it
appear to be a welded pipe but there is no welding. Under even a modest
load the NON-seam will just pop open. Not all of the stuff is made this
way but unless you know what you have I wouldn't use it!
73 John
John Brosnahan W0UN
24115 WCR 40
La Salle, CO 80645
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