At 09:48 PM 12/17/01 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote:
>
>I hate to bring this up, but the same bolt-through -the-mast hint and
>the rubber-hose-on-the-tower-cross-member hinter also suggested
>mounting a rotor with rubber bumbers to eliminate "shock" when
>the rotor starts and stops.
This strikes me as less off-the-wall than the other "hints." Dave Leeson
uses rubber torsion dampers out of a BMW drivetrain, I believe, to smooth
out shock loads on his rotators. I think Yaesu may even offer such a thing
specifically for rotator use. That puts the flexibility in the mast, but
it could be in the rotator mounting if you could do it durably.
73, Pete N4ZR
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