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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: [Tower base maintenance
From: dick@libelle.com (Dick Flanagan)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:05:35 -0800
>>>    I think Frank, W3LPL, now recommends coating the anchor-in-concrete
>>>hardware with tar or similar material for that very reason.
>>
>>My installer mentioned using something called "bolt grout" on the exposed
>>parts of the anchor bolts underneath the base of my crankup tower.
>
>Somebody -- I think it's ICE -- recommends using a tar-based sealant over
>tower-to-ground wire connections,

I sure hope all this stuff works, because once it's applied, I don't see
any way to inspect it.  :(

73, Dick

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