Yes. The turnbuckles on one of my towers came with nuts on both
sides. It has been long enough that I forget where I obtained those
turnbuckles. After adjusting tension on all guys I tightened all of
those nuts. On that tower I did not safety wire the turnbuckles like
I usually do. Nothing has ever loosened or moved but that might very
well have been the case without the nuts too.
I will be taking that tower down to be replaced by something
stronger in the next month or so. This time I will be adding safety
wires just because it's so easy and cheap.
Paul N1BUG
On 09/24/2017 06:32 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
Has anyone seen a turnbuckle that also had nuts or nylocks on one or both
sides of where each threaded rod screws in ?
To pull that off, the nuts at one end would have to be reverse threaded. For
a max effort, 4 x nylocks could be used,
2 at each end. But a simple safety wire would be a lot simpler.... like something
made from 10 –12 ga solid steel..and
fed through everything. And yes, I have had a turnbuckle come right
off...twice, on a previous install back in 1977. It was
elevated a good 10-12 ft above ground too, so no chance it was vandals. Why
that one turnbuckle and never the other 2 baffles
me. The fix was a safety wire fed through everything.
Jim VE7RF
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