Jerry:
I believe the "sleeves" you refer to are actually the bottom of standard
Rohn 55G legs - 26G is swaged, while 55G has a larger diameter piece welded
to the bottom of each section that telescopes over the top of and bolts to
the next lower section. I think 45G is much the same as 55G.
George
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Flanders
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 1998 3:09 PM
> To: k3gp@bigfoot.com
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse Photos now Available
>
>
>
> At 01:09 PM 7/5/98 -0400, <k3gp@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> >The photos of the K8DX tower collapse on 6/30/98 are now linked
> from my home
> >page,
> >http://www.qsl.net/k3gp
> >
> >_
>
> Ouch - hurts just to look!
>
> The photo of the base (lower left thumbnail) shows some sort of sleeves
> attaching the lower section to the base, and the leg separation appears to
> have occurred at the sleeve junction, perhaps inside it at the
> bolt hole of
> the piece of mast set in the concrete.
>
> I am a tower newbie, and hadn't seen sleeves used like this before - is
> the use of sleeves a standard method?
>
> Are the tower ends simply butted up against each other inside the sleeve,
> or is this a conventional telescoping fit with the sleeve as additional
> reinforcement?
>
> Jerry W4UK
>
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