[TowerTalk] Re: [Tower base maintenance

[bob puharic]

K7LXC wrote:

> In a message dated 98-04-07 01:22:17 EDT, you write:
>
> > Check the place where your tower base enters the concrete.
> >  I found that in one year this Florida rain had rusted the bottom inch of
> >  the metal sticking out of the concrete base.
>
>     I think Frank, W3LPL, now recommends coating the anchor-in-concrete
> hardware with tar or similar material for that very reason.

Yep and for periodic maintenance, its easy to strip this material off with
gasoline (yeah, i KNOW what they say about that...) and inspect the base then
reapply...



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