[TowerTalk] steel rotor plate on aluminum Tower?

[Tod-ID]

Steve:

Most of us who have used aluminum towers for any length of time have
substituted stainless steel for the original bolts for the aluminum towers.
In fact, I replaced all of the bolts in one of my towers with stainless
steel rod held in place with stainless washers and stainless cotter pins.
Lots of work to cut and drill the rod, but the result has been that for the
past 20 years I never worried about electrolytic changes to the diameters.
(I do check everything at least once each year).

The concrete stubbs have stainless rod too and the metal part that is not
stainless is cleaned and painted on a regular basis. (nice thing is that it
is at ground level !).

Personally, I would use an aluminum plate --- or maybe one made of
stainless.

Tod, K0TO


-----Original Message-----
From: K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com>
To: raylap@tm.net <raylap@tm.net>; towertalk@contesting.com
<towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] steel rotor plate on aluminum Tower?



In a message dated 99-07-16 09:45:19 EDT, raylap@tm.net writes:

>     I have an aluminum Heights tower. I have to drop the tower for some
> maintenance and would like to relocate the rotor to ( near ) ground level.
>      My question is: Could I fabricate that rotor plate out of steel
plate,
> instead of aluminum, or would that cause some kind of chemical interaction
> with the aluminum tower? Possible damaging the tower legs?

       I don't think you'd have any problems. Don't forget that all the
nuts,
bolts, concrete stubs and U-bolts used in the tower construction are all
steel parts.

Cheers,   Steve   K7LXC

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