I've been using Bolt Depot.
https://www.boltdepot.com/
I do not know their sources, but have had nothing but great service.
73,
Joe kk0sd
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Steve Davis |
Davis RF
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 11:23 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Sources for SS Hardware ??
Hello T-Talkers !
Wondering what your recommended sources for SS hardware nowadays??
If you recommend a source, could you say yes or no as to knowing if made in
China or not??
For those businesses recommended, but unknown if mfd. In China, I will find out
and recap to you.
In my biz we stay away from anything MIC, unless , for instance, it is a Times
Microwave product where they have a US citizen handling QC at the Chinese
factory they lease.
I have attached a link to a fairly good synopsis of the various types, and
grades of SS
https://www.unifiedalloys.com/blog/stainless-grades-families
Tnx, 73, good DX, Steve Davis, K1PEK
DAVIS RF Co.
DAVIS ROPE AND CABLE, LLC (metallic cable)
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1. Re: Antenna ID help (jcjacobsen)
2. Re: More friction needed (JVarney)
3. Re: Antenna ID help (Jim W7RY)
4. Mast clamp friction (k7lxc@aol.com)
5. Tnx for all the mast friction comments! (k7lxc@aol.com)
6. m2 rotator slippage (STEPHEN L SALA)
7. Re: Antenna ID help (Floyd Rodgers)
8. Re: More friction needed (Grant Saviers)
9. Re: More friction needed (JVarney)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:52:47 -0800
From: jcjacobsen <jcjacobsen@q.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna ID help
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Hello Towertalkians
Need help ID'ing a 2 meter yagi. Haven't been able to find anything on line,
probably because of its age. I thought maybe a Hy-Gain or KLM, but no joy.
So I'm turning to the collective memory of the old timers on the reflector.
11 elements. Aprox 14' boom. Has a 4 element LogCell for a driven element.
Any help out there??
Thanks in advance.
73 K9WN Jake
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:25:55 -0800
From: JVarney <jvarn359@gmail.com>
To: "[TowerTalk]" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] More friction needed
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Dave AB7E wrote>> Personally, I think the idea of using multiple U-bolts is the
best way to go. <<
I agree. And instead of shooting from the hip and guessing, with U-bolts you
can calculate and engineer the number and size of U-bolts needed to resist the
mast torque.
This is a simplified
version of the procedure in TIA-222-H
Nominal torsional strength of U-bolt assembly = Tr = 0.075 (D)(Tp) Tp = assumed
U-bolt leg tension = (20 ksi)(Ag of leg)
where D = mast diameter, Ag = gross area of U-bolt leg. English units.
U-bolts should not be tightened past yield and should be limited to 0.85 Fy Ag.
===
Example: 3 3/8 U-bolts and a 2-in mast.
Ag leg = 0.19 sq in
Tp = 20 ksi x 0.19 = 3800 lbs
Tr = 0.075 ( 2 in )(3800) = 570 in-lbs per leg
System Tr = (3 U-bolts)(2 legs each)(570 in-lbs) = 3,420 in-lbs torque
resistance
===
Considering a Yaesu G-800 has a brake resistance 0f 4,000 in-lbs, the 3 U-bolts
is in the ballpark for a medium tribander. If you ignore the 20k yield
assumption and use 42k yield for stainless and tighten to 0.85FyAg, that gets
you 1,000 in-lbs per leg, equal to 6,000 in-lbs total torque resistance.
This simplified estimate ignores vertical slippage forces due to the weight of
the mast and antenna acting on the U-bolts, which reduces the available torque
resistance somewhat.
73 Jim K6OK
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:26:38 -0600
From: Jim W7RY <jimw7ry@gmail.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna ID help
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If you post this on towertalk on the groups.io list, you could attache a
picture.
Feel free to join.
73, Jim W7RY
On 11/9/2022 11:52 AM, jcjacobsen via TowerTalk wrote:
> Hello Towertalkians
>
>
> Need help ID'ing a 2 meter yagi. Haven't been able to find anything on line,
> probably because of its age. I thought maybe a Hy-Gain or KLM, but no joy.
> So I'm turning to the collective memory of the old timers on the reflector.
>
>
> 11 elements. Aprox 14' boom. Has a 4 element LogCell for a driven element.
>
>
> Any help out there??
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> 73 K9WN Jake
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 18:38:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: <k7lxc@aol.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Mast clamp friction
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? ? Here is a cheap and elegant way to increase the friction.?
?Cheers,Steve? ? ?K7LXC? If I need for a clamp to hold without slipping, this
is what I do.? I am a retired machinist.
I make my own 3 inch saddles from 3/4 x 1 1/2 billet aluminum.
I use hot dipped galvanized U-bolts, as SS bolts all seem to be 'one time' use,
before failure.
I use a light duty adhesive sprayed on the 'bore' part of the saddle.?
Women's hair spray works fine.
While wet, sprinkle silicon carbide particles on the adhesive. This size is
about like ground pepper from a pepper mill.
Assemble and tighten down.? The silicon carbide presses into both the aluminum
saddles and into the zinc on the galvanized mast. It will not slip!?? Be
careful in handling the mast/saddles; the silicon carbide can be hard on the
hands.
73 de Steve, NR4M
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 18:39:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: <k7lxc@aol.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tnx for all the mast friction comments!
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Cheers,
Steve? ? ?K7LXC
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 18:44:25 +0000
From: STEPHEN L SALA <k7awb@msn.com>
To: "towertalk@contesting.com" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] m2 rotator slippage
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steve k7lxc:
several years ago i had that same problem and your company sold me a large
metal two-piece bracket as a replacement for the M2 parts (yours had holes for
6 clamps.
it worked perfectly and it has been about ten years up there. don?t you have
one in storage to use yourself?
Stephen
K7awb
DN17es
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 19:01:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: Floyd Rodgers <kc5qbc@swbell.net>
To: "towertalk@contesting.com" <towertalk@contesting.com>, jcjacobsen
<jcjacobsen@q.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna ID help
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Most likely a klm of 70's? vintage.?
On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 11:52:59 AM CST, jcjacobsen via TowerTalk
<towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
Hello Towertalkians
Need help ID'ing a 2 meter yagi. Haven't been able to find anything on line,
probably because of its age. I thought maybe a Hy-Gain or KLM, but no joy.
So I'm turning to the collective memory of the old timers on the reflector.
11 elements. Aprox 14' boom. Has a 4 element LogCell for a driven element.
Any help out there??
Thanks in advance.
73 K9WN? Jake
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 13:49:47 -0800
From: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
To: Steve Dyer W1SRD <w1srd@yahoo.com>, "'towertalk@contesting.com'"
<towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] More friction needed
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The work can be done on many home shop lathes - 12x36 and even some smaller, so
check around for who might be willing to help.
A piece of tubing or a mandrel of most anything the size of the mast minus
0.050" or so makes the setup easier - centering the two halves and then boring
to the desired diameter, recenter and repeat as necessary to get a square bore
and enough teeth and area on the teeth. Three or 4 cleaned up teeth per row on
each half with 1/4" contact areas is what I decided was about right. While I
bored for a 3" mast, I think the casting should work for a 2" bore.
An hour or two of lathe time if you can find a commercial shop willing to take
it on.
It's clear the design intent was to work with all mast diameters, but that
limits the possible tooth engagement. Then adding casting variability created
a marginal clamp system. Mold wear yields more variability and base machining
is difficult to get square on the cast teeth. It's a classic problem in
machining an iron casting - what is the best reference surface or where should
one be machined?
I think many masts slip because bolts are not tightened to spec and not
retightened evenly another couple of times. Also, using stainless steel bolts,
some of which have a tendency to stretch a bit over time. My
DB36 stock mast clamp slipped 3 times before I reinforced the aluminum "C"
clamps on the backside with 1/2" thick steel bar and used grade 8 bolts torqued
to spec 3x. The stock "C" collar pair would close to tips touching and that
made further tightening useless.
I am also a big fan of the DX Engineering cast saddle U bolt clamp sets.
The saddle has a large contact area with the mast or tube and my choice for
all home brew antennas. Never had one slip. A great part for making a multi U
bolt mast clamp.
A u-bolt holding a tube against a flat plate may have only 2 contact points.
Using many u-bolts is one approach. Deforming the u-bolts to increase the
"wrap" is another. Or flattening the tube.
Grant KZ1W
On 11/8/2022 17:42, Steve Dyer W1SRD via TowerTalk wrote:
> What would a competent machine shop charge to do this? Most of us
> don't have a fully outfitted machine shop :-).
> 73,
> Steve
> W1SRD
>> Bolt the two clamp sections to a lathe faceplate and bore them to the
>> mast diameter.? Remove enough material to enlarge the contact area
>> and insure the bore is true to the bases.? Use grade 8 bolts and use
>> a torque wrench to max spec torque for the size bolt.? Repeat this
>> tightening 3 times.
>>
>> The clamp bore as cast wasn't straight to the machined base and only
>> a few "points" would have made contact in the 2800 I have turning a
>> 375# 100ft tip to tip 2L 80m beam.? Now it doesn't slip.
>>
>> Grant KZ1W
>>
>> On 11/8/2022 10:00, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>>> Howdy, TowerTalkians -
>>> ??? ? I need more friction between an M2 mast clamp and the mast.
>>> How could I do that? What materials would work? Tnx.?Cheers,Steve
>>> K7LXCCell: 206-890-4188
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:02:12 -0800
From: JVarney <jvarn359@gmail.com>
To: "[TowerTalk]" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] More friction needed
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Sorry my Gmail messed up the line breaks and made it unreadable. Reposting for
anyone interested in calculating U-bolt torsion resistance for masts.
I'm fairly confident this method is a good approximation because the TIA
committee, composed of experienced engineers in the tower industry, wouldn't
write this into the building code unless it had good support.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Dave AB7E wrote>> Personally, I think the idea of using multiple U-bolts is the
best way to go. <<
I agree. And instead of shooting from the hip and guessing, with U-bolts you
can calculate and engineer the number and size of U-bolts needed to resist the
mast torque. This is a simplified version of the procedure in TIA-222-H
Nominal torsional strength of U-bolt assembly = Tr Tr = 0.075 (D)(Tp) Tp =
assumed U-bolt leg tension = (20 ksi)(Ag of leg)
where D = mast diameter, Ag = gross area of U-bolt leg.
U-bolts should not be tightened past yield and should be limited to 0.85 Fy Ag.
===
Example: 3 3/8 U-bolts and a 2-in mast.
Ag leg = 0.19 sq in Tp = 20 ksi x 0.19 = 3800 lbs Tr = 0.075 ( 2 in )(3800) =
570 in-lbs per leg System Tr = (3 U-bolts)(2 legs each)(570 in-lbs) = 3,420
in-lbs
torque resistance
===
Considering a Yaesu G-800 has a brake resistance 0f 4,000 in-lbs, the 3 U-bolts
is in the ballpark for a medium tribander.
If you ignore the 20k yield assumption and use 42k yield for stainless and
tighten to 0.85FyAg, that gets you 1,000 in-lbs per leg, equal to 6,000 in-lbs
total torque resistance.
This simplified estimate ignores vertical slippage forces due to the weight of
the mast and antenna acting on the U-bolts, which reduces the available torque
resistance somewhat.
73 Jim K6OK
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