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[K7GCO@aol.com]

Someone had a good suggestion of having a long mast for some twisting torque 
cushion.  I do that just to get the twisting torque also lower in the tower 
and I used telescoping pipes for another beam above.  I have a slick 
technique for raising and securing it.  He mention that the pipes he 
suggested and could be telescoped and cross bolted.  Cross bolts holes always 
enlarge.  I would suggest also epoxying or welding the joint. 

One other comment I can't resist is that with a Prop-Pitch Motor, you don't 
need any of all these long masts, Hardy disks or Harley accessories and all 
the other "band aids" that are needed for rotors that are too small for the 
job.  They are designed to fail in about 5 years with the recommended load.  
Buy the one above the one recommended or get a prop-pitch and install it 
properly.  This has become a Worry Wart Web for "deficiently designed 
equipment" designed only to separate you from your money on a regular basis. 
You are being constantly fleeced.  I paid $5 for a prop pitch I still use 
over 50 years later as its "over designed" for the job.  Did you ever notice 
there are NO Web Sites for "over designed equipment".  I speed them up also.

I'd like to start a mass movement for "Over or Properly Designed Equipment 
Society."  It will put the "tight budget mfgs" out of business.  No web site 
will be needed other than to brag about the "ZERO maintenance" they have.  
Collins Equipment was like that.  I have a Collins KW-1 that I replaced only 
one part and like wise in a 75A1--in over 45 years.  I realize this is a 
concept totally unknown concept today but it actually did exit years ago.  I 
got into Quality Assurance Professionally as I knew what that was like at one 
time and wasn't seeing it any more.  The Zenith Floor and Table Radios of the 
30's were a classic example of this.  There were a lot of other good products 
like cars back then.  Most everything else is pure junk now designed to fail 
sooner or later--mostly sooner.  We need a platform of "Freedom 
>From Band-Aids"-- except those from J&J.  That's a concept the candidates for 
presidents could run on and win big time.  This wholesale rip off will 
continue until customers refuse to buy it.  We need another recession.  That 
usually cleans house.  Buyers remember who ripped them off and they fold.  We 
need more with "good memories."  K7GCO.

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