Re: [TowerTalk] 45G leg bolt help

["Jim Dawson" <jdawson@jasystems.com>]

How do you even guy a 120' tower on a 1/4 acre lot? The guys must go stright 
up.
Jim - K9DD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary K9GS" <garyk9gs@wi.rr.com>
To: "Richard Solomon" <dickw1ksz@gmail.com>; "towertalk" 
<TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2019 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 45G leg bolt help


> So what was the cause of the failure? I'm assuming water backed up and 
> froze in the legs, splitting them? It wasn't due to the stove bolts 
> failing, was it?
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> 73,
> Gary K9GS
> -------- Original message --------From: Richard Solomon 
> <dickw1ksz@gmail.com> Date: 2/8/19  3:04 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: towertalk 
> <TowerTalk@contesting.com> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 45G leg bolt help
> We had a local back in the Boston
> area who put up 120' of Rohn 25.
>
> He didn't know about Rohn putting
> the bolts in the tower legs so he went
> out and bought stove bolts.
>
> The tower didn't make it through the
> winter.
>
> 120' of Rohn 25 falling in a 1/4 acre lot
> is not a pretty sight !!
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:54 PM Mac <libbysales@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Emm has a tower ever come apart because the leg bolts [all 6 ] broke
> > apart, just wondering ? mac/mc w5mc
> >
> > On 2/8/2019 11:44 AM, Byron Tatum wrote:
> > > Hello-Â Â I preparation for installing 2 of 45G towers 130' each, a 
> > > while
> > back I bought the required quantity of leg bolt kits #45JBK from a Rohn
> > dealer sold as a Rohn product. These were supplied with bolts/nuts inside
> > plastic tubers with a cap at one end. I did not realize the nuts were
> > staked (3 stake indentations per nut). In fact, they are so heavily 
> > staked
> > that they are destroying the threads of the bolts plus really heating up
> > the bolts. I feel like the torque to thread nuts on is excessive and am
> > waiting for a bolt to twist off. Needless to say I will reject all of
> > these.  I have searched until I am blue in the face for a supplier of
> > grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts. Can anyone tell me where I can buy
> > these two sizes of grade 5 hot dipped galvanized bolts 5/16" x 2-3/8" 
> > long
> > and 7/16" x 2-1/2" long with nuts? I really do not want to buy any more
> > 45JBK not knowing whether they are staked or not, plus the 5/16" nuts in 
> > my
> > kits were NOT hot dipped.Byron W5FH
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