[TowerTalk] Insulating tower

[Greg Gobleman]

There was a few years ago an article in one of the magazines.  Most likely
CQ or QST about doing some creative welding, pouring a concrete pedestal and
using a dense foam and some kind of epoxy.  Sorry, all that info is at work.
But if someone can tell you where to find that article, that would be great.
If I don't see a message on the cluster in the morning, I'll look it up at
work if I can get the time.

The basic idea was to have 4 bolts coming up from the concrete pedestal upon
which you would put this dense foam pad and then weld a flat plate to the
bottom section of Rohn 25G.  Set that on top of the bolts with large holes
in the plate which are then filled with an glue and more foam pads on top of
the plate with large flat washers and a nut.  That way the plate only
touches the foam pads and glue, not the bolts.

Kind of neat.  I cut the article out for future reference.

73
Greg K9ZM



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