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Subject: [TowerTalk] Summary re: mating Rohn tower sections
From: Learning Designs <LDLtd@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:47:15 -0400
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Thanks to everyone for the responses to my query about whether to let the upper tower sections settle below the existing holes (and punch or drill new or expanded holes) or to raise the upper section up a few mm, using the orignal holes and letting the bolts support the full weight of the tower above them.

The very strong (almost unanimous) consensus seems to be to use the existing holes; that the bolts (given that there are six at each joint) are designed to hold the full weight of the tower and that widening the holes would weaken the tower and invite upward movement when lateral forces exerted upward pressure on a given leg.

So I will do that. Thanks!

73,
Maury W3EF

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